THE following appeared in The Washington Times last week, written by Richard W. Rahn. It was headlined as above. Despite the frothing at the mouth tenor of the commentary - one doubts high tax rates will render the Netherlands a wasteland, for exampl...
June 11, 2003
Dear Sir,
It's flying cockroach season. The politicians shall be flying from house to house looking for love, bumping into walls, flying into our faces to confuse us with their beating wings.
And when they do, the old question arises; a...
It may be that long-time Southampton MP Reginald Burrows finally felt that he could speak his mind last Friday when he broke with his party on the question of how it should go about seeking Independence.
For decades, the Progressive Labour Party's po...
Independence should be put to the people by way of a referendum, says Progressive Labour Party (PLP) stalwart Reginald Burrows.
Besides being a major shift for the independence advocate, Mr. Burrows' position is now at odds with the official party li...
DURING one of the angry bullets-or-ballots debates that ultimately fractured the Black Beret Cadre membership, splintering an organisation that had become the para-military spearhead of the island's Black Power movement by the early 1970s, Female Ber...
Premier Jennifer Smith yesterday called the long-awaited election for July 24 and was in a confident mood that the Progressive Labour Party would win a second term in office.
United Bermuda Party leader Grant Gibbons welcomed the news and declared t...
All's well with the Filipino community in Bermuda, according to Jocelyn Batoon-Garcia, Minister and Consul General at the Washington D.C. embassy of the Republic of the Philippines, who made a whirlwind trip to Bermuda over the weekend to join in the...
Premier Jennifer Smith today called a general election for July 24 and was confident the Progressive Labour Party (PLP) can win a second term in office.
At a lunchtime press conference, the Premier said she would today ask Governor Sir John Vereker t...
'Two-bit shakedown'
June 4, 2003
Dear Sir,
As a potential cruise ship passenger to Bermuda I read your paper's articles about arresting Americans on cruise ships for small amounts of marijuana.
Sounds like a two-bit shakedown to me. It's just a way t...
Residents at Lefroy House got a breath of fresh air at the unveiling of a new garden yesterday.
Minister of Health and Family Services Nelson Bascome was on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The new garden includes multiple seating areas, small h...
