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financial statements for the year to June 30 will prove to be "quite satisfactory'' with significant improvements in the first six months of the calendar year 1995. Butterfield's president and chief operating officer, Mr. J. Michael Collier, announce...

together to press for constitutional reforms, according to the Committee for the Independence of Bermuda. The announcement by the committee chairman, Mr. Walton Brown, yesterday, was in sharp contrast to his stance five weeks ago when he appeared to ...

Deputy Governor Mr. Peter Willis yesterday stamped on suggestions Britain was thwarting Independence moves by Gibraltar. He said Britain firmly believed the people in all its dependent territories had the right to decide their future. Chairperson of ...

have a duty not to lie or to mislead the people, a duty not to provide biased or incomplete information and a duty to be honest and open with the voters. In order to have a democracy it is also necessary to have tolerance of minority views. We have t...

Refusing to divulge his precise age ( "Let's say I'm old enough to know better!'') just to mention a few minutes later that he will be 100 "in a couple of years' time'', Mr. Ivan Cunningham's wit and intellect remain as sharp and bright as ever. As o...

Government's Independence advertising campaign is an abuse of public funds, Opposition Leader Mr. Frederick Wade charged yesterday. And United Bermuda Party MPs who are unhappy about the advertisements "ought to take steps to stop it'', Mr. Wade told...

could hand the initiative to the opposition party. The Hon. Sir John Swan was talking during the first head-to-head debate on Independence between himself and the leader of the PLP, Mr. Frederick Wade, live on television last night. Asked if a `no' v...

being blamed from inside the cabinet for putting Independence "on the front burner''. Even the world's great propagandists have seldom had the nerve to blame the person least likely to be guilty. Yet two cabinet ministers have attempted to remove bla...

before it wraps up on the eve of the referendum, The Royal Gazette has learned. A Government source said yesterday the cost was expected to be just into six figures. But Human Affairs and Information Minister the Hon. Jerome Dill refused to comment o...

Don't ask Mrs. Mary Walker about Independence. Don't ask her age. Her traditional upbringing and traditional values precluded real answers on such subjects, at least the day we posed the questions. But please do ask Mrs. Mary Walker about her attitud...