rights last night -- but at a price.
In return for "a modernised and strengthened partnership'' and for restoring their rights to citizenship, the overseas territories will be obliged to sign up to international laws and codes of conduct.
They must g...
statement yesterday to the House of Commons on his White Paper on Britain and the Dependent Territories.
Madam Speaker, with permission I will make a statement on the Dependent Territories.
We have completed a major review of the relationship between...
Bermuda in the White Paper on the dependent territories.
Bermudians are being offered British passports, without reciprocal rights for British citizens to live or work on the Island.
Britain will also require Bermuda to meet social and financial requ...
Territories, Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon said last night.
And she said -- no matter what the British view -- an offer of full citizenship could not be divorced from the UK insistence on tough laws to beat white-collar crime and human rights legis...
DATE: Mar 18, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A former PLP candidate and lawyer yesterday warned Bermuda faces a stark choice between full UK citizenship and Independence.
But Philip Perinchief claimed Government was sitting on the fence over the issue.
And he said Government had "no choice'' bu...
DATE: Mar 17, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Bermuda Ballet Association presents James Sewell Ballet later this week at the City Hall Theatre.
James Sewell Ballet is the Minneapolis based dance company which thrilled local audiences at the Bermuda Festival two years ago.
The company will of...
proposals to reduce the reserved powers of Governors is an interesting new twist.
Of all the changes, the reports that the Governors will lose their plumed hats and uniforms may carry the heaviest symbolism -- but in the long run, changes to the Gove...
Bermuda College hopes to have on-campus accommodation for its students by 2001.
And the facility is now set to launch a massive fund-raising campaign to collect the $5 million needed to build the complex.
Although designs for the accommodation block ...
A Scots MP yesterday moved to quell a mini-Civil War in the House of Commons over the name of a new Bermuda/Britain parliamentary pressure group.
And Ian Davidson said the UK Commonwealth Parliamentary Association group designed to promote better rel...
DATE: Mar 10, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
pressure to stand as an independent candidate, UBP members said yesterday.
Mrs. Cartwright DeCouto lost out in the vote for the official nomination -- but now angry supporters want her to stage a solo run under the "Independent UBP'' banner.
A party ...
DATE: Mar 09, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
