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The members of the Bermuda Public Service Union deserve credit for agreeing to their new pay contract without taking industrial action.
Instead, and using a secret ballot, the members voted for a small wage increase and, presuakbly, a modicum of job...
DATE: May 20, 2011
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Yesterday’s formation of the One Bermuda Alliance represents a watershed in Bermuda politics. Although Kim Swan and Charlie Swan look likely to try to keep breathing life in the United Bermuda Party, the reality is that it is dead and gone.
It is re...
DATE: May 18, 2011
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Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith was right in one respect when she issued her statement on the school suspension policy last week.
If we teach our children anything, it is that we should abide by the rules and regulations that have been laid d...
DATE: May 17, 2011
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First, the good news. Premier Paula Cox now says she is open to the idea of a Cabinet pay cut, if it would help to move Bermuda forward.
That’s a far cry from her last statement, when she said in a television address: “It takes grit and character to...
DATE: May 17, 2011
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Perhaps the planned dissolution of the United Bermuda Party and the Bermuda Democratic Alliance and the creation of the One Bermuda Alliance was going a little too smoothly for its own good.
Just days before the launch of the new party, Party Leader...
DATE: May 12, 2011
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Transport Minister Terry Lister has been taking a lot of criticism over the problems with the public transport at Dockyard. Not all of it is deserved.
A great many people have, perhaps accurately, said that the answer to the shortage of transport is ...
DATE: May 11, 2011
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Two votes in the last week carry lessons for Bermuda’s political parties.
In Canada, voters gave Stephen Harper’s Conservative government a majority for the first time, and at the same time they demolished the once-mighty Liberal Party and elevated ...
DATE: May 10, 2011
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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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