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In church halls up and down the country yesterday, prayers were said for our brothers and sisters in the Bahamas.
Hurricane Dorian, the joint strongest Atlantic storm ever to hit land with sustained winds of 185mph, has left in its wake a trail of de...
DATE: Sep 09, 2019
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If public access to information requests are being “weaponised”, as David Burt recently claimed, then The Royal Gazette’s publication of primary school results shows there should be a Pati arms race.
That’s because, for the first time in living memor...
DATE: Sep 06, 2019
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Cheryl-Ann Griffin. Remember her? The Shelly Bay resident who was central to the protests in her neighbourhood that led first to the withdrawal of Tom Steinhoff’s development plans at Shelly Bay Beach and then to the Bermuda Tourism Authority’s very ...
DATE: May 20, 2019
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To say that Gladstone “Sad” Brown was the glue that made Devonshire Recreation Club stick is an understatement. True, there have been many revered figures who have put their hearts and souls into the “Green and Gold”, the Den, the Home of the Cougars...
DATE: Jan 18, 2019
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From the moment that the Bermuda Union of Teachers suggested that the Premier get involved in the dispute that has thrown public education into crisis, you could take that in the least as a subliminal vote of no confidence in the Ministry of Educatio...
DATE: Dec 12, 2018
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Neil Speight handing in his resignation as chief executive of the Bermuda Cricket Board recently was not so much a case of him abandoning a sinking ship but a matter of affixing an oxygen tank to his back with flippers to deliver him from the ocean d...
DATE: Oct 30, 2018
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This is Cup Match week. The teams have been selected, Somerset Cricket Club and its grounds are being made to look smart, and revellers are at the ready for festivities all over the island. The buzz of excitement is palpable.
The hope is that we have...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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John Rankin has had a pretty rough time of it from the moment he was sworn in as Governor of Bermuda — a mere ten days after civil unrest, literally on the streets of Parliament.
Starting from the fallout of December 2, 2016, a date that will be infa...
DATE: Jun 26, 2018
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One step forward, two steps backward.
Push, pull.
Accusation, counter-accusation.
Punch, counterpunch.
Just when we think we’re getting somewhere, actually we’re not.
This entire mess over Bermuda’s political leaders tearing strips out of the country...
DATE: Jun 08, 2018
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We seek and deserve an overdue apology from Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education and Workforce Development. This is not because the Bow-tied One has gone out of his way to create a war footing with The Royal Gazette. It is because there is the li...
DATE: Apr 27, 2018
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