“You appear to be extremely naive because you don’t have a clue,” fisherman James Parris to Crown counsel Graveney Bannister while on trial for use of illegal fishpots in January.
“To date, the Premier’s position has gone from being vaguely hostile t...
Blind for 53 years, since an accident when working at the Department of Works and Engineering at age 19, Abuwi Hisham Rasool never went through life feeling sorry for himself.
He owns his own small shop in Hamilton, has travelled regularly over the y...
DATE: Dec 21, 2001 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
Interview with Premier Jennifer Smith, transcript.
How do you plan to spend your Christmas?
A: With my family as usual and friends...
Q: Are you taking work home with you?
A: I'm trying not to But I don't know. In fact I know I have some reading to d...
Our Beautiful Dreamer
She looked out at us who sat in the dark,
and with love and compassion she kindled a spark;
a spark that she fanned into a flame,
into a beacon of hope that will bear her name;
for she knew how it felt in a world without light;
...
MP's yesterday voted to change the structure of the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), which Government said would result in international investors being assured the regulatory authority is independent.
But the Opposition United Bermuda Party said th...
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...
