The PLP Government has, in my opinion, been most unfairly pilloried of late by the Opposition and by many of your correspondents. To take only two examples, the Premier has been ridiculed because of her passion, or should it be weakness, for an exclu...
Budget Statement, which was delivered in the House of Assembly on Friday. The first part of the full text of the reply was carried in Saturday's newspaper.
Other pieces of legislation, which are important to the competitiveness of our international b...
Insurance is is becoming more entrepreneurial, and the winners are those who never stop learning. David Fox reports Advocated US tax reform could pose a threat to the lure of Bermuda as a tax-advantaged domicile. Conservative forces in the US are ta...
Other funds will be applied to such varied items as improved communications, reserve constabulary allowance and overtime, as well as other allowances provided for under the Police Tribunal award in 1996. Two additional traffic wardens, whose time wil...
Neletha Butterfield (PLP) picking up where she left off last week.
Sen. Butterfield said the Throne Speech saw the addition of more Government promises to those it had yet to fulfil.
"Don't make promises you can't keep,'' she warned.
She said while t...
overall propserity of Bermuda, Finance Minister Grant Gibbons warned on Friday.
Dr. Gibbons, speaking on the final day of the Throne Speech debate in the House of Assembly, said there were various areas of international business which could be improv...
Opposition Leader Frederick Wade set out a Progressive Labour Party legislative agenda on Friday as he described Government's Throne Speech as "remarkable...for its omissions.'' While attacking the Throne Speech on several fronts, Mr. Wade set out 1...
`Football has taken a nose-dive at a rapid pace' "An officer, having completed 12 months continuous service, may be granted, at the discretion of the Secretary to the Cabinet, special leave with full pay for the purpose of taking part in internatio...
the Green Paper appeared to lean towards Independence.
The committee which produced the paper did not explore the "status quo'', he said. This was because it was accepted Bermuda currently enjoyed a "sensible arrangement''.
Instead, the committee -- ...
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 ...
