YESTERDAY, November 11, 2004, Bermuda, along with other Commonwealth countries, held its annual Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph on Front Street to remember those who fell on the battlefield during the two great world wars of the 20th century...
As we all know comedy institution Not the Um Um was named after that famous Bermudian verbal mannerism to fill in the spaces when thoughts and words don?t come.
And to be honest after watching their dress rehearsal on Monday night I feel like filling...
Dialogue on Independence
November 3, 2004
Rather than reacting negatively to the contents of the recent letter written by the Association of Bermuda International Companies (AIBC) which commented on the issue of Independence for Bermuda and whether s...
Myths and scare tactics
October 31, 2004
Dear Sir,
While in Bermuda last week I read with interest the front-page headline of of October 26, 2004. The headline was "Independence: 'Almost no Positives'.
My immediate response to the companies is that w...
The 2004 Throne Speech is the result of an ?accidental Premier? and his colleagues fighting for political survival, Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons told the House of Assembly yesterday.
?If the PLP Government didn?t really have a Social Agenda before...
Mr. Speaker,
Talk about the Scott government?s new social agenda began earlier this year just as fallout from the Berkeley fiasco and the BHC police investigation thoroughly undermined what was left of Bermuda?s reputation for integrity, good governm...
RECENT complaints that Bermuda's international sector was attempting to influence local political affairs suggested that Progressive Labour Party members and activists making the complaints were out of touch with geopolitical realities.
Corporations ...
MEMBERS of the board of ABIC, the Association of Bermuda International Companies, whose letter last week to Premier Alex Scott drew the ire of prominent PLP activists, rejected suggestions that their contribution to the debate on Independence should ...
SHORTLY after the Progressive Labour Party won the 1998 General Election, an expatriate chief executive officer lambasted the fact the international sector had no veto over this island's Immigration policies. At the time I wrote:
Precisely the same s...
Hints on improving buses
October 29, 2004
Dear Sir,
I would like to respond to two letters in October 29 edition of ?Smith?s?? call to take tourists off scooters and ?Frustrated and Concerned?s? observations about travelling by bus. It seems to me t...