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...
Government's decision not to send anyone to the United Nations decolonisation summit meeting in Anguilla was quite right.
Why should Bermuda attend a conference of countries put on a list by the UN when, as Britain argued at the conference, the Islan...
An invitation to attend last week's decolonisation conference in Anguilla was declined because it came too late and Premier Jennifer Smith was already committed to attending Bermuda Day events, according to Ms Smith's aide David Burch.
But the decisi...
Independence makes good economic sense for Bermuda, political scientist and Independence advocate Walton Brown told a gathering on decolonisation last week.
"Independence is certainly no panacea but from a purely economic vantage point it will lend t...
Bermuda's presence on the list of the world's few remaining colonies has been labelled an "anachronism" by a top Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official.
"Bermuda is as close to independence as she could be without taking that final step," sai...
Britain has no hidden agenda on Independence for its colonies, a UK government official said in Anguilla this week.
The assurance was given to more than 60 delegates at the annual summit meeting of the United Nations' Special Committee on Decolonisat...
