received approval from both sides of the Upper House.
Government Senate leader the Hon. Gerald Simons said the paper grew out of a decision to lower the voting age to 18 some years ago.
Once that decision was made and the necessary legislation was pa...
the Island, The Royal Gazette has learned.
But yesterday he firmly scotched rumours he was here advising Sir John on how to handle his Independence initiative.
"Essentially I am a tourist. I didn't even know about the Independence referendum,'' he sa...
Costs, corruption and citizenship were uppermost in the minds of more the than 70 people who attended the first of Government's three planned town meetings on the question of Independence and the August 15 referendum.
Despite a slow start, the meetin...
A post-referendum briefing tour by the Bermuda International Business Association (BIBA) could start in November, the organisation said yesterday.
BIBA, with Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, the firm retained by BIBA to promote the Island's intern...
an advertisement aimed at Bermudian investors with Independence jitters.
"We're pleasantly surprised by the response,'' Rainbow Realty sales manager Mr. Billy Culbert said yesterday. "It seems that a lot of them are inquiries on business letterhead. ...
Doughty says he is confident about the future of the Anglican church in Bermuda.
After spending more than 20 years away at school, university, and then as a priest in various English parishes, the 38-year old Bermudian says that, in his view, the chu...
calling for a boycott of the Independence referendum, its chairman said yesterday.
"We'll make our position clear just before the referendum,'' Mr. Walton Brown said.
Between now and August 15, Mr. Brown said he wanted to see if Government would anno...
referendum, some Bermudians now have great concern over being able to vote.
The referendum has been scheduled for the most difficult and disruptive time during the major holiday month. Since no care seems to have been given to the fact that many peop...
spokesman.
A proposal for Parliamentary recall should have been included in Government's collection of position papers on Independence, Mr. Graeme Outerbridge told The Royal Gazette .
Having such a clause in the Constitution would help assure that MP...
15 Independence referendum.
How many people will be off the Island from the first advance poll on July 25 until the referendum on August 15 is not known, but one reader predicts that disenfranchised voters will number in the hundreds.
A British Airwa...
