`What Scotland actually has is a decentralised system rather than independence. It's not gone off on its own. But people on the Island, irrespective of status, seem confused about what the position is.' -- Ian Davidson A Scots MP visiting Bermuda se...
DATE: Oct 20, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
the people of Montserrat who are being subjected to a protracted natural disaster. There is great dignity in generosity to others. That is especially true in this particular case since Montserrat is another small island in our own area of the world w...
Coxall will mean the end of Operation Cleansweep. Bermuda was promised that the elaborate arrests of street pushers was just the beginning of a larger plan which would next target importers of illicit drugs. Now people are beginning to wonder if this...
Bermuda could become a leader among the UK's remaining Dependent Territories in a joint bid to win a better deal from Britain, according to a new pressure group.
The news came from the recently-formed Friends of Montserrat Coalition, set up in respon...
DATE: Oct 03, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermudians with ancestors from St. Kitts and Nevis got back to their roots at the weekend.
And a troupe of Bermudian Gombey dancers -- the Warner Gombeys -- are set to visit St. Kitts for the St. Kitts Carnival over Christmas.
The move comes after th...
DATE: Sep 23, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
"People's Five'', resigns today it will come at a bad time for the United Bermuda Party Government.
No Government wants the uncertainty and distraction of a by-election so close to an election. The UBP would have to find a strong candidate and win, a...
Parliament, The Royal Gazette has learned.
The Youth and Sport Minister of just eight months will not make up his mind whether to quit until today.
But last-ditch bids by Cabinet colleagues to persuade him to stay are unlikely to succeed.
And -- if h...
DATE: Sep 04, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
of returning to Bermuda. Back at last for a holiday with family friends, they talked to Living about their lives as missionaries.
Sarah, 23, has been working with Jackie Pullinger, well known for her work with Hong Kong's drug addicts, while Matthew,...
their efforts were being felt in their homeland.
She also reassured them that the size of a country did not affect the impact it could have on the global stage as Jamaica's presence in the United Nations had demonstrated.
M. Patricia Durrant, Jamaica...
A group of investors want to start up a deposit company to compete in a market worth $1.3 billion in Bermuda.
Lloyd Telford Sr., Lovette Lovell, Walton Brown Jr. of Research Innovations Ltd., and Waldo M. Ingham have applied to incorporate Renaissanc...
DATE: Jul 23, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Ahmed Elamin
