which he released yesterday.
Section 71A of the Constitution Order 1968 refers to the appointment and conditions of the appointment of the Director of Public Prosecutions whose conditions of independence are not subservient and whose function is to d...
to call on Governor Thorold Masefield to quickly appoint a politically independent Director of Public Prosecutions.
Sir John also said he was deeply concerned by a decision by Government not to prosecute operators of gambling machines despite an opin...
Government should have said the park was purchased in 1890, not 1990.
They weren't sharks'! August 16, 1999 Dear Sir, So, the sharks are coming to get us! Alas by sheer coincidence we happened to be in the Daniel's Head area late Monday morning Au...
An attack on the independence of non-party senators is an assault on democracy, Opposition leader Pamela Gordon said yesterday.
Ms Gordon claimed: "What we have is a Government where this new Bermuda is not a democracy, but totalitarianism.
"They're ...
DATE: Aug 20, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda Party MPs who fought former Premier Sir John Swan's efforts to bring McDonald's franchises to Bermuda.
Recently, the legality of the Prohibited Restaurants Act was upheld in the highest court in the land, and was held to overrule the contract...
I'm shocked at the escalation in violent crimes towards our visitors and fear the negative effect it's all going to have on our weak tourism industry.
Drastic crime prevention measures need to be taken before we become defunct.
Can we survive yet ano...
I have just finished reading the most ignorant and narrow-minded letter that I have ever read in all my life.
I have wracked my brains as to how I could best respond to these comments, and have come to the conclusion that there really is no way to ta...
The UK Parliament is waiting for its colonies to set the tone before it gets its teeth into the White Paper rewrite of Britain's relations with the Overseas Territories, ex-Speaker Ernest DeCouto said yesterday.
And Mr. DeCouto -- who met recently wi...
DATE: Jul 28, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
hanging, it has been argued.
Shadow Legislative Affairs Minister John Barritt said the challenge would be to find a form of punishment that would take its place -- and satisfy society.
"It will not be good enough to abolish it and not have something ...
being a "damp squib'' and for failing to take the Island's position much further on the whole question of Bermuda's relations with the United Kingdom.
There is some merit to this view; the public does not have as much indication today as it might hav...
