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Unruly and disruptive behaviour was back in the news again recently but, no, not in connection with the House on the Hill, members are still on recess, and for another three weeks, which will make it nine weeks in total. No, this time the headlines w...
DATE: Jan 24, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
Trust is a small word with big implications. It cannot be manufactured. Nor can it be conjured up at will. Trust has to be earned. It is the critical ingredient in any good relationship and, you don’t need me to tell you, very few relationships survi...
DATE: Jan 17, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
Much has already been written and said about my former colleague and good friend Mrs. Louise Jackson, all of it complimentary, all of it deserved, and today, on the eve of her funeral, I want to begin the column with my own special tribute.
Louise wa...
DATE: Jan 10, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
This column is for all those readers who think I am too darn serious, too darn often. I know, I know, I can be: just not this week, for a change.
Instead I give you my idea of a fun way to see off the old year and to usher in the new, as well as a ch...
DATE: Jan 03, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
I don’t know whether you know, but there is a committee of the Legislature that has been meeting secretly on the Hill, doing some pretty important work. I know because I was called to appear before the committee recently. They wanted to grill me abou...
DATE: Dec 27, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
Betcha didn’t see that coming, did you? I know I didn’t. Mind you, neither was I aware that the Opposition PLP were apparently plotting to undermine the referendum. I had not heard a peep until the Premier claimed a plot was afoot, and quite how that...
DATE: Dec 20, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
Better late than never, mother used to always say. Government has now given us some better idea of where they intend to go with the SAGE report and its recommendations. There will be a take note motion in the House on the Hill today — which means mem...
DATE: Dec 13, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
Somebody somewhere, I bet, must have thought that they were pretty darn clever. I don’t. First of all it took them practically a year to come up with the referendum question. Secondly, none of us likes to be played for a fool or for stupid. The quest...
DATE: Dec 06, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
Talk about calling it like you see it. There is this paragraph very early on in the Report of the SAGE Commission that is very hard to get over. It reads: “The Commission has identified that the Civil and Public Service does not have sufficient leade...
DATE: Nov 29, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
It was an effective and memorable advertising campaign that Avis once ran: we’re number two, we try harder. This same principle is probably equally applicable in politics, most especially in two party contests where finishing second means last, out o...
DATE: Nov 22, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt