MPs yesterday put off dealing with a proposed Senate amendment to the Independence Referendum Act 1994.
Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan asked for the matter to be "carried over''.
It is thought the referendum plan will be shelved at least until fall.
John Stubbs told MPs yesterday.
"There is overwhelming evidence that homosexuals are biologically determined,'' he said.
His statement came as he introduced for the second reading his bill on legalising sex between gays over the age of 16.
The House ...
Inc. -- Drama Fest '94, presented by Stage One Productions -- City Hall Theatre -- May 11-13.
As the huddled figure leaps up into the light, sword slashing and stabbing through air that reverberates with a deafening sound of cannon, we are swept into...
weighty matters during their visit here last week.
But their House of Assembly welcoming ceremony proved a springboard for a generous sprinkling of political wit -- British and American style.
For those who weren't there and didn't tune into their ra...
of Assembly debates his gay rights bill. Whatever attention he does attract today will pale beside the revelation yesterday that a UBP group wanted to make Dr. Stubbs Premier of Bermuda for a limited time.
There are a great many people, in fact a maj...
fall.
And a United Bermuda Party caucus committee will deal with much more than discipline in examining the party's "impasse'' on Independence.
The committee, consisting of Deputy Premier the Hon. Irving Pearman and Education Minister the Hon. Claren...
Bermuda's leaders have too narrow a view of Independence -- a "pretentious and impractical'' view that would be costly for the Island, says a Government MP.
The standard model of Independence included high commissioners in Commonwealth capitals, amba...
John Swan with the Hon. John Stubbs as Premier, The Royal Gazette has learned.
The plan, which was described as "harebrained'' by at least one MP, fell through due to lack of support, but was later exposed at caucus by Mr. Harry Soares MP, sources sa...
backbencher in saying Government plans for an Independence referendum were finished.
"I think that there will be no legislation to carry it out, and the Premier will have to wait until the fall if he intends to persist,'' Mr. Wade told The Royal Gaze...
A rookie MP, who has played a role in two embarrassing Government defeats on the floor of the House of Assembly, says there should be a review of the United Bermuda Party's leadership.
Mr. Trevor Moniz says UBP mishandling of the Independence initiat...
