19 results returned for search: "independence AND " author John Barritt
Nothing quite like being between a rock and a hard place, Mr Editor. It is no fun and you can’t bail. It’s very much like that in politics.
There are two big issues that are looming that are not going to go away:
• The decriminalisation or, maybe eve...
DATE: Jul 03, 2015
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John Barritt
You thought maybe I might touch on Scotland this week, right? Wrong. Try Botswana. Yes, Botswana, Mr Editor, and if space permits I think I can bring it back to what happened in Scotland. Stay with me now.
I have just finished reading a fascinating b...
DATE: Sep 26, 2014
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John Barritt
You asked, Mr Editor, for my take on the 2014/15 Budget. Here you go in no particular order: —
First, I thought the Statement was pretty faithful. It followed the One Bermuda Alliance script as we have come to know it since their election. There were...
DATE: Feb 24, 2014
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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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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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John Barritt
You can’t beat the wit of Oscar Wilde. “I live in constant fear of not being misunderstood”, he once lamented. Of course Mr Wilde was no politician. Politicians have the opposite lament: they want to be always understood whatever they say however the...
DATE: Jul 19, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
The dreaded i-word was bound to come up, I suppose Mr Acting Editor. It was too good an opportunity for some to pass up on the opportunity to revive the issue of independence for Bermuda. I suppose too, that like clocks that have stopped ticking, it ...
DATE: Jun 14, 2013
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John Barritt
You know the saying, Mr Acting Editor, the more things change the more they stay the same. The Throne Speech ritual endured once again — with some minor variations. It was long, yes, (45 minutes or so) but it was mercifully short, perhaps pointedly s...
DATE: Feb 15, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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John Barritt
Please, Mr Acting Editor, I do not mean to make light of the recent double murder and the outrage that has followed when I ask this question: how many times must we go around the political mulberry bush before we take action?
I am trying to make a po...
DATE: Feb 01, 2013
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
