A controversial amendment to the employment laws for non-Bermudians is set to ensure a stormy session in the House of Assembly today.
And MPs are likely to sit into the early hours of tomorrow to discuss the amendment -- claimed by Opposition Labour ...
DATE: Jun 27, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Government will be able to postpone elections in the face of natural disasters or wars if a new piece of legislation tabled in the House of Assembly becomes law.
The new legislation, an amendment to the existing Parliamentary Election Act 1978, allow...
DATE: Jun 17, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda Forts 1612-1957 -- by Edward Harris, F.S.A. -- published by the Bermuda Maritime Museum Press -- designed by Paul Shapiro.
*** In a work of remarkable scholarship, more than 15 years in the making, Edward Harris's `Bermuda Forts 1612-1957' w...
A bid by former Governor Lord Waddington to win full British citizenship for Bermudians and the UK's other dependant territories was knocked back in the House of Lords last night.
Lord Waddington -- in his first speech in the Lords in five years -- s...
"post-Hong Kong'' will soon be spelled out by new British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.
But last night a British Parliamentary expert on Foreign Affairs said there were unlikely to be any major changes in the near future.
It is doubtful the current p...
DATE: Jun 05, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
appears to have called for the resignation of the Permanent Secretary for Education, Dr. Marion Robinson. Sen. Scott has made the call in the wake of an audit of Bermuda's education system carried out by Professor William Poston which found significa...
by Harry Ritchie. Hodder & Stoughton.
A remnant -- according to the Oxford English Dictionary (concise, i.e. cheap, version) -- is a "fragment, scrap, especially a piece of cloth, left when the greater part has been used or sold''.
And used, abused a...
Bermuda's new Governor has been on a crash course in Bermudian life and culture, he revealed yesterday.
Thorold Masefield, who will be officially sworn in next week, has been mugging up on the Island prior to his arrival.
Mr. Masefield -- in an exclu...
DATE: May 29, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
according to an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report. The EIU is a subsidiary of The Economist magazine.
The EIU's "Country Update'' of Bermuda is provided through the Bloomberg News service.
"Despite a strong promotion campaign in the USA, the n...
DATE: May 29, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Ahmed Elamin
Research (CIR), argues that the settlement agreement's approval by the Supreme Judicial Court is "contrary to the public interest'' of Massachusetts.
In urging the court to reject the petition, they called for a public evidentiary hearing before a sp...
