Jamaica's Labour Minister, Portia Simpson, will be the keynote speaker at The Bermuda Jamaican Association's Banquet celebrating the 35th anniversary of that island's independence.
Jamaican Association Social Committee Chairman Baris Brown said the e...
A Bermudian Rastafarian wants to set up a farming project for Bermuda's youth to teach them discipline, teamwork and a love for the land.
Fresh from a trip to Ghana that was cut short after four months because his elder daughter caught malaria, Archi...
Police drugs squad, it was revealed yesterday.
As The Royal Gazette predicted last week, Dominican-born Telford Georges has been named by Governor Thorold Masefield to lead the probe.
A statement issued on behalf of the Governor confirmed Mr. Georges...
DATE: Jul 15, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Simmons made Bermuda's first woman Solicitor General seems curious indeed.
As an experienced senior member of the bar Mrs. Browne Evans is well aware that the law officers of the Crown must be seen to be above politics. Thus it is difficult to fathom...
could be set to do an encore -- as head of the Commission of Inquiry into the Bermuda Police drugs squad.
Sources said retired Appeal Court judge Telford Georges was yesterday being considered to take charge of the sensitive inquiry.
Deputy Governor ...
DATE: Jul 10, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Governor to postpone elections or referendums in the event of an "extreme emergency''.
The Parliamentary Election Amendment Act -- moved in the wake of the delay in the 1995 Independence Referendum -- sailed through its second and third readings in t...
interfering with the liberty of the Press...I think it is a great deal better to err a little bit on the side of having too much discussion and having too virulent language used by the Press, rather than err on the side of having them not say what th...
A controversial bill to allow Government to postpone elections in the event of natural disasters or hurricanes is set to come back to the House of Assembly today.
In a surprise move last Friday, the Progressive Labour Party won a vote against the bil...
DATE: Jul 02, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Business chiefs yesterday poured cold water on claims the Island would benefit from a rush of business from Hong Kong in the wake of Britain's handover of its biggest colony to Communist China.
The Bermuda International Business Association, which re...
claimed could enable it to put off an election if opinion polls were unfavourable.
Late in the debate, Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness moved to delete a clause in the Parliamentary Election Amendment Act which would enable the Governor on the ad...
