Bermudians seem to feel a “mild indifference” towards abstract ideas such as Independence whereas issues closer to home - such as the “internal colonialism” of racism - strike powerful chords on the Island, a forum at the Bermuda Industrial Union hea...
Bermuda faces racial hostility if it doesn?t opt for Independence, fears former Government Senator Calvin Smith.
He said the autonomy debate was demarcated along racial lines but the Island could not continue to duck the issue.
Mr. Smith said latent ...
BERMUDA'S press have been publishing the various points of view prompted by Mr. Gregory Volk's lecture and interview on the island's "boring" and "tourist boat" arts scene. But British art lovers are now also in a dither over a speech made deploring ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2004 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
Philip Wells posted a report on last Thursday's meeting at the Bermuda College, attended by about 60 people, on his web log "A Limey in Bermuda".
He said Dr. Brown, of the United Nations Committee on Indigenous people, whose talk was titled "Protecti...
THE island would be hard pressed to find an issue in recent times that has given rise to such passion as the failure to include Bermuda's sole Olympic medallist, boxer Clarence Hill, among the inaugural inductees into the newly-created Sports Hall of...
The Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) is to open a dedicated rehabilitation unit to help cope with the growing number of elderly.
The service will provide in-patient care in a dedicated 24-bed ward, and out-patient therapy from a new day hospital on the ...
Bermuda will see an increase in outsourcing predicted business leader David Ezekiel at the opening of the International Captives Congress yesterday.
Mr. Ezekiel, who heads IAS Park Ltd, said Bermuda was not at its limit but was approaching critical m...
Management disasters
May 8, 2004
Dear Sir,
I found today's blaring headlines “Management disaster” very disheartening. We have a correctional facility that's a management disaster; a hospital that's a management disaster; the building of the Berkeley...
An educational speaker from the United States is on the Island delivering his message of independence and advocacy to residents with disabilities.
As part of Access Awareness Week, Access Bermuda is holding a conference, 'Empowerment and Inclusion', ...
On April 15 The Royal Gazette carried a long article, captioned, “Learning from the Caribbean”.
It maintained that Bermudians should not view the Caribbean independent governments as “failures” simply because their standard of living is so much lower...
