Yesterday, The Royal Gazette published the first of what will be an ongoing series of stories on what are likely to be issues in this year's General Election.
The first topic was Independence, which for different reasons is a subject that many politi...
It's anybody's guess whether Independence will be on the Progressive Labour Party's (PLP) manifesto for the coming election.
The ruling party has not given any firmer indication since Jennifer Smith's remarks in the run up to the 1998 election campai...
Outgoing Progressive Labour Party MP Arthur Hodgson has blasted Government for failing to radically change Bermuda.
But he believes the PLP will take the country to independence after winning the next election.
He said Bermuda needed a free medical s...
The following analysis of Cuba's growing racial tensions by journalist Tom Carter originally appeared in The Washington Times.
It was forwarded to the Mid-Ocean News by a reader from Warwick with the accompanying letter:
"Last week's Mid-Ocean News...
June 13, 2003
Dear Sir,
We would like to praise one of your Island's taxi driver, a Mr. Phillip Galloway.
We were not aware that you could only use coins on your buses, so we went into Traditional's Restaurant to acquire the coins, when a gentleman k...
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...
