The first, of course, was, "We don't want Independence.'' The second was, "Listen to us. We are tired of Government ignoring the people.'' The second message is now of major importance to Bermuda. Bermudians repeatedly made it clear how they felt on...
A Commission of Enquiry is to be set up into the debacle surrounding the postponed vote on Independence, the Governor announced yesterday.
On August 15, the vote was originally postponed indefinitely as Hurricane Felix struck the Island.
It was then ...
year to June 30 blames the stock market for the decline in the net asset value per share, which dropped 2.4 percent or $0.24 to $9.93 from $10.17 in the twelve month period.
The fund at the end of the financial year had assets totalling $13,553,015, ...
DATE: Sep 20, 1995 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: David Fox, Business Editor
which includes all the things Bermuda has to offer. Every part of the package is important to the visitor and each part supports the others. If a single part has problems which affect the visitor's enjoyment of Bermuda, then we all have a problem.
Fo...
As part of a continuing series on the new Cabinet members and their Opposition counterparts, reporter John Burchall talks to shadow minister for legislative affairs and women's issues, Mrs. Lois Browne-Evans MP.
If Bermudian women are serious about e...
would have the choice of becoming citizens of an independent Bermuda. Twenty years was the figure Bermudian politicians seemed to favour but that figure could well have been wrong. In fact it was quite possible that the United Kingdom Government, at ...
Bermuda will be scarred by business failures and serious unemployment -- unless urgent action is taken.
The spectre was raised yesterday by leading banker and ex-president of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Louis Mowbray.
Mr. Mowbray said Bermud...
Bermudians want "a respite'' from Independence talk, says Premier the Hon.
David Saul.
Right now, "they just don't want to hear about it,'' he said.
Dr. Saul was responding to comments on Monday by Opposition Leader Mr.
Frederick Wade. Speaking to a ...
Yet it seems to many people that Bermuda has the greatest freedom of all, freedom from want. In that freedom we are among only a few. Our standard of living means that we are not beholden to other countries for their loans and handouts. As a Country ...
letter to the Governor asking for a Commission of Inquiry into the events surrounding the postponement of the Independence referendum on August 15.
And yesterday Government backbencher Dr. David Dyer threw his support behind the move, which is oppose...
