Britain yesterday insisted that Bermuda abolish the death penalty to bring the Island into line with the UK's international treaty obligations.
But the British Government's hardline position on hanging sparked a furious response from Premier Pamela G...
PLP member Rolfe Commissiong could find himself in hot water for a second time after he made an unsolicited phone call to a Royal Gazette journalist and spoke with him about an internal party matter.
Mr. Commissiong made the phone call on Wednesday a...
plays in Bermuda's politics. Given the statements by the party's spokesman, Graeme Outerbridge, printed in this newspaper yesterday, it is time for the NLP to tell the public just how many members it has and where it thinks it is going.
It seems to u...
Premier Pamela Gordon and Labour Minister Quinton Edness yesterday got a first-hand look at what former prisoners, given a second chance, have accomplished.
Locust Hall of Devonshire had been derelict for 40 years and without a roof for 30 years.
But...
DATE: Feb 10, 1998 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Burgess
A front-page story in yesterday's paper incorrectly quoted National Liberal Party spokesman Graeme Outerbridge as stating that the party would support the removal of capital punishment on its own "with British arm-twisting''. It should have stated "w...
DATE: Feb 10, 1998 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
was the highly conciliatory and very friendly tone set by the British. Mother was clearly nurturing the small children rather than setting them straight.
This was no more in evidence than when the Foreign Office talked of "a new partnership'' with th...
`The Dependent Territories are a source of pride to Britain. We are proud, because we have ties of history that stretch back hundreds of years The following is the full text of yesterday's speech to the Dependent Territories Association by British F...
Premier Pamela Gordon is set to attend a major Caribbean Forum next month chaired by UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.
The conference will zoom in on hot topics like money laundering and white collar crime, as well as environmental issues, tourism and...
DATE: Jan 31, 1998 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
forge better links with its colonies, it was revealed yesterday.
The UK Labour Government has already unveiled plans for a massive reform of the largely hereditary Upper House.
And PM Tony Blair's administration could use the transformation to create...
DATE: Jan 28, 1998 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
dependent territories.
But Premier Pamela Gordon last night stressed the smaller territories in the Caribbean would not become a financial drain on Bermuda.
But she said Bermuda could help the Caribbean countries towards the more advanced financial a...
DATE: Jan 24, 1998 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
