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...
bring the issue of Independence to the fore.
The NLP believes self-determination is inevitable for Bermuda and doesn't want to see events overseas forcing the Island into a course it doesn't want.
Party chairman Charles Jeffers wants the PLP to start...
The long-awaited debate on the UK's rewrite of relations with its colonies was yesterday branded a damp squib.
And Opposition leader Pamela Gordon said: "I am severely disappointed -- it's concerning to say the least. I was waiting, hoping, to be enl...
Dear Sir, I read the Saturday, July 17, 1999 Royal Gazette and noticed the comments of Dr. Grant Gibbons of the United Bermuda Party during the House debate containing what appeared to be disdainful comments about Antigua and the visit of the Premie...
Canada is to push the controversial appointment of barrister Saul Froomkin as the country's Honorary Consul -- even in the face of opposition from the Bermuda Government.
Confirmation that Canada was sticking to its guns over the ex-Attorney General'...
DATE: Jul 22, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
in the last two days which indicated that the Island is making some progress in assuring the world's leading economies that it is a legitimate and clean business centre and not a tax haven.
An announcement by the French Government that Bermuda is not...
