Today is Wednesday, December 12, the 346th day of 2001. There are 19 days left in the year.On this dateIn 1901, 100 years ago, the first radio signal to cross the Atlantic was picked up near St. John’s, Newfoundland, by inventor Guglielmo Marconi. (T...
November 30, 2001
Dear Sir,
I have had several comments in regards to my expressed concerns about the PLP hierarchy.
1) It has been said that I am concerned only because my brother, Arthur Hodgson,was dismissed from the Cabinet.
2) I should not expec...
It seems almost bizarre today to think that until 20 years ago, Bermuda did not have a specific law enshrining and protecting human rights.
Until then, the Island had a Constitution which laid out basic rights and had had bodies charged with preventi...
These are excerpts from editorials in newspapers from around the world which may be of interest to Royal Gazette readers:
The Star, Johannesburg, South Africa, on the African National Congress and AIDS:
The country needs someone with independence and...
Parliament ended abruptly last night after the Opposition UBP party stormed out in protest when the Speaker of the House refused to initiate debate over a motion to be moved by Opposition MP Maxwell Burgess.
And questions have again raised over Speak...
While close to 62 percent of Bermuda residents support some kind of Government subsidy for local music radio programmes, the idea is drawing a mixed response from broadcasting executives.
The statistic is just one of the results of a recently conduct...
The British Government has offered British citizenship, together with the right of abode, to people in the Overseas Territories who qualify. Citizenship will be non-reciprocal; residents of the UK will not have the right of abode in the Overseas Terr...
The United Bermuda Party have formed a committee to decide the fate of MP Trevor Moniz, more than two years after they made him an outcast.
Mr. Moniz had the Parliamentary whip withdrawn in October 1999, meaning that he was excluded from internal pla...
Visitors to the new Montessori Academy on the old National Sports Club site on Middle Road, Devonshire will find few semblances of what was once one of the Island's premier sports grounds.
The transformation has been impressive, with games and meetin...
DATE: Nov 06, 2001 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
The British Government yesterday announced the appointment of a new Governor for Bermuda.
Sir John Vereker, 56, (pictured) who is currently Permanent Secretary for the Department of International Development in the British Government, will take over ...
