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Calls for collaboration and cooperation sound and look an awful lot like wishful thinking, don’t you think Mr Editor?
If the banter on the blogs is any indication, we have people on either side who keep scorecards, lengthy lists of the wrongs that e...
DATE: Jan 23, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
Politics offers up plenty of twists and turns, Mr Editor, some of them predictable and some not so predictable. The unpredictable can be a pain. When asked what could scupper his government’s plans former United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Macmilla...
DATE: Jan 20, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
It was a criticism that was bound to be levelled, Mr Editor, and so it was. Bermuda could use an America’s Cup approach to public education.
Everyone knows it too, and have known for a long, long time. How long? Long enough.
Our political parties ha...
DATE: Jan 19, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
This letter was penned by a reader who wishes to remain anonymous and was sent not long after my columns following the Throne Speech, one of which was entitled “Constructive work for idle hands”.
The speech underscores the OBA’s inability to sustain...
DATE: Dec 23, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
This letter was prompted in part by my column headlined “Important to tie your camel” about the need for a stronger more active and robust Public Accounts Committee and the need for greater and closer oversight of Government spending.
The following ...
DATE: Dec 23, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Neither apparently was the Casino Gaming Act. This, Mr. Editor, is legislation of elephantine proportions: some 100 plus pages of over 200 clauses that any reasonable person might regard as complex, if not complicated, mos...
DATE: Dec 12, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
There isn’t just a hole to fill on page 4, Mr Editor. There is a hole in all our hearts. I am saddened to know that my column will no longer get to bask in the glow of Peter’s good humour. He was a great companion to all of us each Friday over the ye...
DATE: Dec 12, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
By John Barritt
Readers write, Mr Editor, and they are seldom wrong – as well you know. Much like voters, which most of them probably are. This week I share a few. Comments, that is.
Feedback was strong on recent columns on the need for stronger parl...
DATE: Dec 05, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
By John Barritt
The Arab proverb has it right, Mr Editor: Trust in God but tie your camel. It is good sound advice that makes even more sense (and dollars and cents) when it comes to Government and Government spending. Just look at the track record —...
DATE: Nov 28, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
No need for sub-titles, Mr Editor, or interpreters. No need to read between the lines either. I shall try and keep it plain and simple and short. I tell my grandchildren all the time, as I did my children before them, two wrongs don’t make a right. ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt