May 15, 2003
Dear Sir,
People who are criticising the Attorney General for her threat to a judge in the House of Assembly last week are allowing themselves to ignore another serious issue.
The Speaker obviously knew the rules of the House did not all...
Since the advent of full party politics in 1968, voters have only once elected an Independent candidate to the House of Assembly.
That was largely because the Westminster system and the dynamics of party politics minimised their chances of success, e...
OVER the years we all develop our own personal list of places we are ready to revisit at the drop of a suggestion.
Sometimes it takes years to discover them, first encountering what my brother Jim labels "But Countries". Interesting to visit . . . bu...
I have discovered that I am not alone in my perception of the state of partisan politics in Bermuda. Although I have been aligned with more than one political party during my lifetime, I have always been an uneasy participant. I believe in the concep...
Independence may not be on the ruling party's election platform this year, but Government is already engaged in preparing Bermudians for full nationhood.
No one on the inside would confirm anything that may or may not be on the party's election manif...
OH, well. I did not enjoy receiving a dressing down from Dr. Eva Hodgson in last week's Letters to the Editor column. But then I don't suppose I could ever have expected Dr. Hodgson to understand where I was coming from when I made the statement in a...
His opening volley to the students of Berkeley Institute and CedarBridge Academy was "We are achievers", and by the time world renowned motivational speaker Dennis Kimbro finished his speech, few had reason not to believe in the power of their dreams...
DATE: May 02, 2003 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
Murder victim Shaundae Winston Jones prepared himself for death after receiving a number of threats on his life in recent months.
His mother Marsha said since he was gunned down in Dockyard last Sunday, a number of his friends had come to her with me...
On Easter, Iraq's Catholic bishop expressed a profound fear that 700,000 Catholics would be at great risk if a new Iraq is dominated by Muslims who want an Islamic theocracy like Iran's.
At an Evangelical Protestant Church in Baghdad, a widowed paris...
THE United Bermuda Party briefly considered making Independence the central plank in its 1972 re-election platform because of Britain's decision to join the European Economic Community - until the island's summary ejection from the sterling currency ...