smiling.
Dr. Saul spoke to the Pembroke West United Bermuda Party branch only days after a bill backed by five rebel MPs to outlaw fast food with a foreign flavour passed in the House of Assembly with Opposition PLP support.
Pembroke West's Dr. David...
DATE: Dec 11, 1996 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
defiant C.V. (Jim) Woolridge last night told The Royal Gazette .
The rebel MP issued the warning shortly after the UBP passed a constitutional amendment which would discipline members who don't tow the party line.
Calling the vote a "foregone conclus...
Bermuda must upgrade product and services, says Gibbons Continued from Saturday's newspaper Finance Minister Grant Gibbons stressed that Bermuda had to upgrade its product and services.
In other areas that were not doing as well, he continued, it h...
At times, Governor Lord Waddington could almost have been propping up a House of Commons bar.
Sporting a blue jacket, he is chatty, convivial and full of anecdotes -- a million miles from the image of the bluff, no-nonsense Lancashireman he earned du...
Mr. Speaker, and Members of this Honourable House. It is my duty and responsibility as the Leader of the Opposition to lead the Opposition's response to the speech from the Throne. Mr. Speaker, I accept the responsibility with humility, but also enth...
flayed the UBP's 32-year record in power and vowed: "We will form the next Government.'' In her first Throne Speech reply, Ms Smith accused Government of: Forking out millions of dollars on a new senior school -- while students today lacked basic e...
The son of a Welsh-born roads engineer is set to carve out a new path of his own -- as a member of Bermuda's Senate.
For retired top civil servant Walwyn Hughes, who sat behind Senators during budget debates, is moving one step forward to take up a s...
DATE: Nov 15, 1996 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
expanded policies on tourism, international business and fast food franchises.
It is fair to say that without action against crime and drugs, tourism and international company business will be in serious trouble and there will be little call for fast...
steps down as Governor.
"I will definitely push Bermuda's cause,'' he said on the eve of his last Throne Speech today.
Lord Waddington said he would fight the Island's corner as a member of Britain's Bermuda Society and the House of Lords.
"I will co...
an especially apt message for the United Bermuda Party.
That is the message of the African National Congress in South Africa when they say that the only way forward for the Rainbow Coalition is together.
That is the message that President Bill Clinto...
