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Based on early evidence, it appears that the Bermuda Industrial Union and its bus driver members may have miscalculated in going out on strike.
A poll in this newspaper’s website, while not a scientific poll, showed opposition on the order of 95 per...
DATE: Aug 19, 2011
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Bermuda is on the brink of the worst industrial action in several years.
While the disputes concerning bus drivers and the Corporation of Hamilton are over dismissals of employees for disciplinary reasons, they are being played out against a backgro...
DATE: Aug 18, 2011
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There are few certainties in life, but one is that as long as the Bermuda Post Office continues its self-destructive refusal to deliver mail when one digit is incorrect in a mailing address it will ensure, letters, or more likely, e-mails, to the Edi...
DATE: Aug 18, 2011
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There can be very few people left in Bermuda who do not recognise the gravity of the recession and the desperate need for Bermuda to improve its levels of service and competitiveness.
Those who are left, based on the events of the last week, seem to...
DATE: Aug 16, 2011
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One Bermuda Alliance Michael Fahy and community activist Raymond Russell have both come in for an unfair amount of vitriol for their efforts to get the Bermuda Industrial Union to bring its accounts up to date and to ensure they have a clean audit.
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DATE: Aug 03, 2011
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The one set of statistics that seems to give people more problems than any other are crime statistics.
They can be read in so many different ways, and in a small community, small changes can be made huge on a proportional basis.
Thus, if the number o...
DATE: Aug 01, 2011
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Cup Match, more than any other event, symbolises Bermuda.
It is a time when people come together, and come home, to celebrate what it means to be Bermudian and to enjoy each other’s company. It is entirely fitting that the first day of Cup Match is o...
DATE: Jul 27, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox’s promise that there will be no repeat of the Transport Control Department construction saga is welcome, as is her suggestion that she would welcome an independent review of the project. Indeed, Ms Cox’s language is telling. She des...
DATE: Jul 25, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox urged Bermudians not to be “self-haters and self-doubters” at a town-hall meeting on the economy this week.
This can be viewed in different ways. As a question of confidence, it is a chicken and egg conundrum. Without economic grow...
DATE: Jul 22, 2011
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The tourism figures for the second quarter of 2011 may have been down overall, but the overall outlook is positive.
That?s because overall arrivals were down almost entirely due to a drop in cruise ship arrivals in May when the Norwegian Dawn was out...
DATE: Jul 21, 2011
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