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The Royal Gazette carried two lead stories on successive days featuring the outgoing general managers of the Fairmont hotels in Bermuda.
The timing was more by accident than by design, but given what Norman Mastalir, Fairmont's Bermuda head and the ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox’s teasing comment last week that she might call a general election sooner rather than later has ignited another round of election speculation.
Ms Cox, whose decision it is, has until early 2013, or some 18 months, in which to call a...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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Bermuda’s sporting organisations often come in for a lot of criticism, much of it justified. That does not negate the enormous amount of voluntary time that people put into sports organisations, or the fact Bermuda often punches well above its weight...
DATE: Jun 24, 2011
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Anti-Progressive Labur Party graffiti which appeared over last weekend has no place in Bermuda politics.
The graffiti, depicting a Dennis the Menace type figure urinating on the PLP logo, is juvenile and meaningless.
While this newspaper supports f...
DATE: Jun 24, 2011
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Give Health Minister Zane DeSilva a little credit for apologising for making an anti-Semitic slur in the House of Assembly.
But it’s worrying that while he did withdraw the remark after making it in the House of Assembly, and did apologise for it ag...
DATE: Jun 23, 2011
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The announcement that the Sunshine League plans to close its 24-hour residential care facility is the most tangible sign yet of how the recession is hurting people.
No one would dispute that the Sunshine League has provided a critically important se...
DATE: Jun 23, 2011
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Government's decision to investigate the Operation Ceasefire as part of the effort to combat gang violence should be welcomed.
This newspaper has long advocated this programme, as has the Opposition, and especially Opposition Senate Leader Michael Du...
DATE: Jun 21, 2011
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For months now, the call has gone out for Government to cut spending and to reduce the size of the Civil Service.
So when 93 jobs were cut in education last month, this should have come as no surprise.
These are not easy decisions, and Dame Jennife...
DATE: Jun 16, 2011
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If gambling was permitted in Bermuda in the way that Tony Brannon would like, then there would have been a book open at the Hamilton City Casino setting odds and taking bets on how long he was likely to last on the Tourism Board.
This newspaper predi...
DATE: Jun 16, 2011
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The conviction by a Supreme Court jury of David Cox for the murder of Raymond Troy (Yankee) Rawlins is rightly being celebrated by Police and prosecutors. There was a time, not so long ago, when juries seemed to be unwilling to convict people of seri...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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