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 ...
Future changes to the Constitution should begin in the House of Assembly, and be approved by at least a two-thirds majority of the members of the House of Assembly, according to the United Bermuda Party.
But the Opposition party is hoping that the Go...
IN a story that suggests that US politics can be stranger than fiction, the current issue of The Village Voice, a New York-based weekly generally considered to have a left-of-centre political bias, reports that a Republican political operative who wo...
ducation, vocational training and the resurgence of old time values are key to solving some of the social problems plaguing our community, according to aspiring parliamentarian Ellen-Kate Horton.
Ms Horton, 57, a former teacher, is one of nine candid...
January 30, 2004
Dear Sir,
I have just completed reading a copy of 'Acel' dama' written by Mr. Neville Darrell and am just amazed that Mr. Dale Butler and Mr. Arthur Hodgson would endorse such a book.
If what Mr. Darrell has written is true or partly...
