US Presidential candidate Senator John Kerry reaffirmed in his victory speech in Wisconsin that he would clamp down on so-called tax-loopholes and companies that moved overseas ? to places like Bermuda.
And the anti-offshore rhetoric appears to have ...
Enforce the law
February 9, 2004
Dear Sir,
I read today in your newspaper a letter by ‘Retired Police Officer' in Smith's Parish under the heading ‘Thinking about bike safety'. It probably should have been ‘Child safety on bikes', but no matter.
Firs...
A: The most urgent issue is community management. Community management is recognising that systems are not working, so the WEDCO system of management is not working because it's inflaming people's aggravation instead of defusing it.
The second one is...
Michael Howard gave a speech last week, in which he outlined his beliefs about Britain and the way he thought it ought to be governed.
It wasn?t given a tremendous amount of play in the British press ? they picked up on parts of it that had to do wit...
ELEMENTS within the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office were anxious to seize on the 1973 assassination of Governor Sir Richard Sharples as a pretext to set the stage for Bermudian Independence, newly declassified security dossiers reveal.
FCO bure...
WAYNE Smith believes that all of his educational and business and personal experience has been pointing him directly to his present position as Executive Director of the Bermuda Alliance for Tourism.
The late Tourism Minister David Allen may have com...
WITH the selection of Senator Michael Scott as the Progressive Labour Party's candidate to run in the upcoming Sandys North by-election to replace former Finance Minister Eugene Cox, it would seem the old maxim about nice guys finishing last has fina...
True Bermudian justice
February 4, 2004
Dear Sir,
When our Bermuda botanical and environmental scientists discuss the vegetative and environmental destruction caused by Hurricane Fabian, invariably, they discuss, identify and stress the importance an...
He could have remained one of the Bermuda's dozens of alienated black men ? but Marc Bean jumped into the political waters with both feet, when he told the ruling party he wanted to be the Sandys North by-election candidate.
Despite getting zero vote...
US Presidential hopeful, Senator John Kerry, has been hauled over the coals for his anti-Bermuda stance - after it was discovered his wife's trust made a killing on Ingersoll-Rand redomesticating to the Island.
Sen. Kerry, of Massachusetts, has been ...
