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...
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...
