Where is our money going?
August 15, 2004
Dear Sir,
It gave me great mental distress, the statement of this Mr. Scott that we, the seniors, should consider moving to countries suitable to our income. Where is our contribution to this country been spe...
SUMMER Haven resident David Stowe is over the moon with his new specialised wheelchair, which was donated to him by VL Venture Trust and other anonymous benefactors.
The wheelchair carried a hefty $24,000 price tag, which was well out of Mr. Stowe's ...
A CENTURY ago Bermuda's vacationer laureate Mark Twain wrote to a friend that among the island's chief appeals to jaded Americans like himself was the lack of anything resembling a professional political class, the careerist mediocrities who view hol...
The Independence train may yet begin to pick up some steam following reports that the Progressive Labour Party has fully deliberated the matter and come to a position.
Former party chairman Neville Tyrell confirmed this week that he had completed ext...
The Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) hopes to conduct its own exit interviews in a bid to determine why so many teachers are leaving CedarBridge Academy.
BUT general secretary Mike Charles told The Royal Gazette this week that the situation at CedarBr...
Bermuda faces more conflict next time constitutional amendments are made after the parties failed to agree on a new formula.
Ructions caused during the last amendment bringing in single seats in February, 2003, prompted Britain to set up talks on new...
THE brother of current Tucker's Point president Edward Trippe once threatened to "close down the airport" if the Trippe family and other shareholders in Bermuda Properties Ltd.(BPL) were not given permission to sell real estate at the former Castle H...
As children, most of us were reminded by our parents not to put the cart before the horse. Said another way, don?t act precipitously. Make sure any bright, new sure-fire, can?t-miss idea fits coherently into a well-thought out thoroughly tested gener...
If it isn't broke...
August 3 2004
Dear Sir,
This is in response to Mr. Calvin Smith's letter dated July 27, 2004 in which he responds to my original letter which objected to the PLP's lack of accountability, and outlined the risks of Independence fo...
Bermuda's discussion on Independence has “caught the eye and ear” of some of Britain's other colonies, according to Premier Alex Scott.
And Government is looking to standardise procedures for visiting dignitaries and Cabinet Ministers at Bermuda Inte...
