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...
October 28, 2004
Dear Sir,
I am glad to see that Ms Sharlita Steede has spoken up about the personal allegations that Col. Burch had splayed all over the news. Even if his claims were true, I find it really disturbing how nasty this man can be at tim...
Former Government Senator Calvin Smith had some strong words for the Association of Bermuda International Companies this week ? stay out of local politics.
Reacting to a letter to the Premier expressing the Association's concerns about the move to In...
ABIC, the Association of Bermuda International Companies, the organisation that represents 133 international sector companies with a physical presence on the island, moved boldly into the Independence debate this week.
In a three-page letter to Premi...
BERMUDIANS considering the option of Independence should give some thought to the experience of Grenada ? the most beautiful of the Caribbean islands. It is oval in shape, volcanic in origin, 100 square miles in area, fertile and well wooded, has a p...
And a United Nations spokeswoman said that any vote on Independence should be a "clear expression of the will of the people", suggesting Britain could find itself under pressure from the international community to use the referendum mechanism in Berm...
N reading the recently published history commissioned by the Bermuda Industrial Union and written by Ira Philip, several thoughts immediately came to mind. First, I would say that the material in the book is well researched and clearly presented in a...
Pomp and ceremony will rule on the grounds of the Cabinet Office this morning as Governor Sir John Vereker spells out Government?s agenda for the new parliamentary year in the Throne Speech.
The Speech, which is written by the Government but delivere...
THERE'S a grandiosity so epically wrongheaded about the Premier's recent statements on everything from Independence to the widespread corruption within his administration that a preliminary diagnosis of Napoleon Complex would not be entirely out of o...
