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With the America’s Cup show in town, powerful brands are everywhere. Anyone watching the racing this weekend will encounter names such as Louis Vuitton, Land Rover, SoftBank, Emirates, BMW and Bremont. All global brands, words or phrases that carry a...
DATE: Oct 15, 2015
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Every generation likes to consider itself to be more intelligent, more capable and entirely more virtuous than the one which preceded it. And every generation likes to think it has either attained or is close to attaining the very pinnacle of human p...
DATE: Sep 24, 2015
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It’s September and Bermuda’s children crept unwillingly back to school this month. Doubtless many of them are already counting the days until the Christmas holidays begin — as are their parents, although for altogether different reasons.
The start of...
DATE: Sep 22, 2015
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Bermuda can count itself fortunate to be home to the Green family. Their purchase of the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, the $90 million makeover that has followed, the development of the hotel’s beach club on the site of the former Sonesta hotel in ...
DATE: Sep 17, 2015
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Economic inequality is increasingly an issue on the Island and not only between those who have jobs and those who do not.
The widening gap between the best paid in our community and the lowest paid should not be ignored. On an Island of this size, t...
DATE: Sep 10, 2015
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Upon the completion last weekend of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event in Gothenburg, Sweden, all eyes turned genuinely towards Bermuda.
After all that has been said and written, that superyacht of possibilities is heading our way fas...
DATE: Sep 02, 2015
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How we manage our personal finances is a key factor in the standard of living we enjoy.
It can influence the education we can give our children, the type of home in which we live and whether retirement is truly a period of “golden years” or a grim b...
DATE: Aug 27, 2015
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The best actors possess a curious duality, one predicated on the contradictory need for self-exposure and self-protection.
They are “wide open, yet with no breaches in their armour”, as one renowned critic termed this paradoxical quality.
Defencele...
DATE: Aug 26, 2015
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This is Cup Match week. The teams have been selected, St George’s Cricket Club and its grounds are being made to look smart, and revellers are at the ready for festivities in the East End and all over the Island. The buzz of excitement is palpable.
T...
DATE: Jul 27, 2015
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Seventy years ago today — April 15, 1945 — British troops entered the fairy tale town of Celle in Lower Saxony and abruptly found themselves on the threshold of hell.
Outside Celle the British units, which included a number of Bermudians who had volu...
DATE: Apr 15, 2015
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