24 results returned for search: "bermuda championship AND " author RG: In our Opinion
In the week that the murder of another young Bermudian male has cast a pall of despair over the country, it is both uplifting and comforting that a handful of the very same demographic can elicit a smile and the encouragement of hope for our future.
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DATE: Feb 01, 2017
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Now that the dust has settled on events in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles and reality has hit home that Bermuda is a bona fide Division Four nation from a world cricket perspective, eyes turn instinctively to where to next for our nati...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016
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To get a true sense of what Flora Duffy accomplished, and its impact on Bermuda, when she crushed a world-class field to win the World Triathlon Championships Grand Final in Cozumel, Mexico, you need to go no farther than the comments from a watching...
DATE: Sep 21, 2016
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Bermuda wasn’t your father’s Oldsmobile. In Stephen Birnbaum’s expert opinion, by the late 1980s the island’s tourism product was actually something closer akin to your great-grandfather’s Model T Ford.
He might have been parodying a popular advert...
DATE: Aug 12, 2016
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It has been an exhilarating few weeks for Bermuda’s rising rugby union stars. A squad of talented young men went to Miami for the Rugby Americas North Under-19 Championship, while some of our inspiring young women have been attending a camp at Life U...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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As Somerset Trojans prepared to bow out of the Caribbean Club Championship in Haiti in late February, coach Kieshon Smith reopened a very stale can of worms. Not unimportant, mind, but stale all the same, for the lack of attention given to his concer...
DATE: Apr 04, 2016
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The Bermuda Cricket Board took care of one piece of important business at its annual meeting last Thursday night, when the book was officially closed on Allan Douglas, with Paul Ross, of Somerset Bridge Recreation Club, being elected to fill the vaca...
DATE: Nov 30, 2015
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For an Island so small, it is remarkable that Bermuda produces anything that could be labelled “best in the world”. Yet, occasionally, we can genuinely lay claim to something that we, or one of our small number, does better than the other seven billi...
DATE: Nov 05, 2015
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When we said last Friday that incidents the like of which resulted in the death of Shijuan Mungal last year could happen every day in Bermuda, it was not done to apportion blame to the slain teenager. Nor was it done to take a pop at our young people...
DATE: Sep 14, 2015
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Today marks a watershed moment in the history of The Royal Gazette and its approach to a pastime that has sustained its popularity among our citizens over the past three decades and more, but has struggled to command column inches in the only daily n...
DATE: Aug 17, 2015
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