Every ten years or so, Independence comes up for debate again.
In 1995, Sir John Swan launched his Independence Referendum and voters soundly rejected it.
In 1986, then Senate President the late Hugh Richardson tried and failed to put the issue to a ...
MR. Arthur Hodgson raises a sore point with me. He says: "If you want to preserve something for the interest of the public, don't ask one individual to take on the burden of the community." He is quite right!
Somebody last year put my house on a list...
DATE: Feb 27, 2004 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
Bermuda's Independence will come under a Progressive Labour Party (PLP) Government, according to party chairman Neville Tyrell.
And Premier Alex Scott will be addressing the topic in his keynote address at the party's annual Founder's Day luncheon on...
Debate - not rhetoric
February 20, 2004
Dear Sir,
I'd like to address a cluster of letters that I've read in recent online editions of your paper, particularly the commentary of Dr. Amenemhet Tamerry.
Before I go any farther, I'd like to announce my ...
The three most urgent issues are better community relations, the young, the not so young men on the Cambridge Road, or wherever they congregate. Two, housing. Housing throughout the constituency. So far I've only spoken to, by way of canvassing, resi...
The island is one of 16 territories specified as non-self-governing which the UN wants to see decolonised in line with General Assembly resolutions 1514 and 1541.
Talks geared towards decolonisation had been going on between the UN and some administe...
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...
