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Last week’s public meeting on crime was important on a number of levels.
First, the mere fact that National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief and Commissioner of Police Michael DeSilva were sharing the same stage sent out a powerful symbolic messag...
DATE: May 09, 2011
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Although the formal dissolution of the United Bermuda Party won’t take place until Tuesday, the UBP effectively shut down this week, and did so not with a bang but a whimper.
In many ways, this is bittersweet, and it would be wrong not to acknowledg...
DATE: May 06, 2011
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A 2007 campaign promise, part of the great giveaway of the Progressive Labour Party platform in that year’s election, was broken yesterday.
The promise was free tuition for full-time Bermuda College students, the thinking being that no one should be ...
DATE: May 05, 2011
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First a confession: Our story in Friday's newspaper on the introduction of ten year work permits incorrectly stated that term limits would be extended to ten years.
In fact, term limits for most work permits will remain at six years, but certain wor...
DATE: May 04, 2011
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Bermuda has now recorded five murders this year, and is at risk of exceeding last year’s total.
Details of this latest gun murder will come out in the coming days, but the time is now long overdue when Bermuda as a whole must take a stand against gu...
DATE: May 02, 2011
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While anything is possible in politics, it seems pretty certain now that the United Bermuda Party and the Bermuda Democratic Alliance will join forces within the next few weeks.
In practical terms, this is sensible. The risk with any divided opposit...
DATE: Apr 29, 2011
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Bermuda’s public transport system is at the sharp end of the growing battle over Budget cuts.
It won’t be the last battleground, as shown by today’s march on the Cabinet Office, but what is happening is instructive.
It is not clear why the system i...
DATE: Apr 27, 2011
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The Ministry of Tourism and the Tourism Board deserve credit for starting a website where members of the public can contribute their ideas for improving tourism.
This is a welcome initiative because it will make the process of building tourism more t...
DATE: Apr 27, 2011
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Yesterday’s feature on the problem of financing pensions and health care for seniors helped to humanise what can often seem to be an esoteric and academic subject.
It is anything but. As the comments from the senior citizens soon-to-be retirees show,...
DATE: Apr 26, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox’s message to the country last Thursday night was rightly focused on the two issues of paramount importance to the Island crime and the economy.
Having recently run into the first real problems she has experienced since becoming Pre...
DATE: Apr 25, 2011
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