Former Premier and Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon surprised her colleagues Friday when she refused to go along with her party's call for a constitutional conference and a referendum on the Boundaries Commission report.
Her stance transformed what wo...
There is some irony in the fact that the House of Assembly session on Friday night - which dealt the Boundaries Commission report - featured one of the finer debates of this Parliamentary session.
The irony, of course, is that this is likely to be on...
Premier Jennifer Smith said the Boundary Commissioners had done a brilliant job in handling a complex and difficult issue.
There had been 73 oral submissions, 177 written submissions, as well as public meetings during the nine months the Commission c...
Physiotherapist Laura Delgaty is quickly settling into her new job at the Posture and Pain Centre, helping relieve patients of chronic pain as well as providing therapy for osteoporosis and diabetes.
"Chronic pain and chronic disorders are the areas ...
DATE: Oct 11, 2002 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
O critics Bermuda has entered into a political suicide pact by joining the Caribbean Community, sacrifing its individual identity and allowing the island to be subsumed by a Third World cartel that it is not part of geographically or economically.
Pr...
September 17 was the 215th anniversary of the signing of that most remarkable document, the American Constitution. There wasn't a great deal of fuss made of it. I don't fully understand why. Is there a more important document in existence, one more r...
The hundreds of Jamaicans who descended on Shelly Bay for a picnic had double cause for celebration - 40 years of independence from Britain and improbable success for their cricket team who sealed a place in the Commercial League's knockout final at ...
DATE: Sep 25, 2002 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Ivan Clifford
THERE is a certain irony at work when you consider that as more and more Bermudians press for Independence, Britain, the "Mother country", is moving towards decriminalising marijuana, the island's number one recreational drug of choice.
Britain's mov...
Royal request
September 15, 2002
Dear Sir,
Would The Royal Gazette please stop identifying a few easy to quote monthly individuals - Toppy , Rolfe, Walton - as "political activists".
Not one of them has any political base or anything to demonstrate e...
Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons is to meet the Governor to raise allegations that Attorney General Dame Lois Browne Evans is trying to interfere politically in criminal prosecutions.
The Attorney General, a political appointee, has responsibility for...
