Taking a "holding position'' when responding to inquiries about Independence is becoming more difficult, according to the chairman of BIBA (Bermuda International Business Association).
"Beginning with the first Independence referendum bill early last...
A leading Cayman Islands lawyer said yesterday Independence was the best course for Bermuda.
Mr. Anthony Travers also saw no reason why international businesses would take flight if Bermuda cut ties with Britain.
And he scotched suggestions the Cayma...
linked to the independence debate is debatable, according the Island's financial analysts.
"I think it (the overall decline) is an emotional response to the verbal bantering between the chairman of the Bank of Butterfield and the Premier,'' said Mr. ...
That is the question just about everyone is asking now that the Progressive Labour Party leadership has asked its followers not to exercise their democratic right in the Independence referendum.
The first thing that is happening is a strange public a...
The Progressive Labour Party hit back yesterday at criticism of its Independence referendum stand from the National Liberal Party.
Comments by NLP Leader Mr. Gilbert Darrell were "mischievous at best and dishonest at worst,'' PLP referendum campaign ...
Progressive Labour Party fylers calling on Bermudians to boycott the Independence referendum drew the wrath of the Premier yesterday.
The Hon. Sir John Swan said the PLP was "intentionally misleading'' its supporters on the referendum issue.
Sir John...
Catchment Hill. There have been repeated reports throughout the community that Government will allow a compromise development of the catchment area which is already under concrete. But according to the Environment Minister: "How it will be zoned is s...
A Bahamian journalist whose country cut colonial ties with Britain 22 years ago has urged Bermudians: "Don't rush to Independence.'' Mrs. Rosemarie Johnson Clarke added: "Take it slowly, and don't do what we did.'' Mrs. Clarke, Features Editor with...
Bermuda, a senior lawyer said last week.
And Mrs. Dianna Kempe, managing partner at Appleby, Spurling and Kempe, said prospective clients are not reacting well to the uncertainty the Indepedendence debate is creating.
At the same time, Bermuda's main...
of some West Indian islands as an argument against Independence. It is clear to almost anyone that many of the islands have had a very hard time since Independence but it is not very relevant to Bermuda's debate. Arguments about who did what and when...
