November 28, 2004
Dear Sir,
The British Government have permitted referenda for devolution in the United Kingdom and are promising referenda prior to ratification of the new European Community's constitution and also, eventually, even for a substitut...
Bermuda will have an Ombudsman to address complaints and work on behalf of citizens with the Government.
Legislation was passed in the House of Assembly yesterday paving the way for Government to take steps in setting up the Office of the Ombudsman, ...
Race, front and centre
November 30, 2004
Dear Sir,
It appears the issue of race has once again come to the fore, with the United Bermuda Party appointing for the first time in their history a Shadow Minister of Race in David Dodwell as well as inviti...
FAR be it for me to try to guess what form the Government's much heralded debate on the question of Independence will finally take. But I would have thought that Government would not have wanted discussions on Independence to clash with its equally v...
AS a general rule memory idealises the past. When personal history is called to mind it is almost always brightly glossed with romanticism. The mental pageant of long-ago scenes is invariably haloed in the rosiest of hues. But when individuals have b...
IS Bermuda in distress? Is the Premier sending a cryptic message to the people that Independence is nigh?
According to one angry veteran, the Union flag is hanging upside down at the Cenotaph in Hamilton. "The Union Jack's been hanging upside down si...
DATE: Dec 03, 2004 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
Sincere thanks
November 27, 2004
Dear Sir,
I am writing as President of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps Overseas Association, but know I also speak for all Bermudian war veterans and their families, in congratulating all branches of the media - the...
Pathetic public greeting
November 26, 2004
Dear Sir,
“Good-morning-how-are-you?” “How-are-you-today!” They pass with a quick smile, not slackening pace or waiting for a reply. Flung over the shoulder, replies are lost in the snarl of traffic, “Have-g...
WHEN Progressive Labour Party MP Ren?e Webb abruptly resigned from the Government Cabinet in the summer, I posed what I fully anticipated would be a rhetorical question. I asked whether Ms Webb would be content to sit on the backbenches and watch eve...
More than 60 percent of Bermudians in a poll said they were opposed to Independence for Bermuda.
Of the 403 residents polled by Research Innovations, 21.4 percent supported Independence, and 17.2 percent said they were unsure.
The numbers reinforced ...
