Gibbons, Health and Social Services Minister the Hon. Quinton Edness yesterday clarified remarks he made in the House of Assembly on Friday.
Mr. Edness rose during "personal explanations,'' just before debate resumed on Government's Green Paper on In...
MPs who have joined the Hon. Irving Pearman in promising to resign if Friday's vote on the Independence Referendum Act is lost.
The two names most commonly mentioned were Hamilton West MPs the Hon. Maxwell Burgess and the Hon. Wayne Furbert.
Not just...
because it believes that the people have a right to a democratic say by vote.
This is, after all, a democracy and despite what the Opposition Leader says, there are many precedents, old and new, in democracies for deciding major issues with a referen...
laid bare to Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan.
Deputy Premier the Hon. Irving Pearman and four other Government MPs have told him they would resign if the legislation fails.
And they also warned they would abstain if there was a "no confidence'' motion...
Metropolitan status for Bermuda is a complete `red herring'', Finance Minister the Hon. David Saul told the House of Assembly on Friday.
The British Government had stated on at least three occasions that they were not going to make any commitment to ...
And, some churlish folk might say, the challenge proved just as difficult as the other three -- reading, writing and arithmetic.
The gauntlet was thrown down by House Speaker the Hon. Ernest DeCouto at the outset of yesterday's debate on Government's...
Health and Social Services Minister the Hon. Quinton Edness left no doubt how he will vote in a referendum planned for this summer, as an Independence debate began yesterday in the House of Assembly.
Mr. Edness said there would be no stopping the pro...
Independence. "The basic principle must be that the Premier or the Prime Minister must have a say in choosing his Commissioner of Police, his Colonel of the Army, and the Chief Justice''. -- Opposition Leader Mr. Frederick Wade on the role of a Bermu...
Government MPs will resign their seats and force an election if the entire caucus does not support the Independence referendum bill next Friday.
The UBP Parliamentary caucus was given that message at a meeting on Thursday, sources told The Royal Gaze...
Mr. Frederick Wade set out his party's position on a wide range of Independence issues yesterday as debate began on the Green Paper.
Deputy Premier the Hon. Irving Pearman , who opened the "take note'' debate on the discussion paper, had "nothing to ...
