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Jermaine Pearman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole for murder.
It's not long enough.
Pearman, 37, stabbed 23-year-old prison officer Shakeya DeRoza to death at her home in July, 2009. Ms DeRoza had two young children, one of th...
DATE: Feb 02, 2011
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The English sports media has been giving extensive coverage to the current controversy over sexist comments about female football officials made by commentators Andy Gray and Richard Keys.
Mr Gray was dismissed by Sky Sports and Mr Keys resigned onc...
DATE: Jan 31, 2011
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‘Tis the season for polls, apparently.
Two political polls have come out in successive days, one from Walton Brown and the other from Mindmaps, The Royal Gazette’s regular pollster. While there are differences between the two, with Mr Brown’s tending...
DATE: Jan 26, 2011
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Yesterday’s editorial dealt with the poor state of the Bermuda economy and many of the causes of the current recession.
As it stated, it was not intended as a blame-assignment exercise but as a means of determining how to fix the problem and how to a...
DATE: Jan 21, 2011
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Like the swell on the South Shore before a hurricane, the bad economic news keeps rolling in on Bermuda’s own economic storm, making a mockery of Premier Paula Cox’s unfortunate use of the term “post-recession”.
In just the last week the Island’s two...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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It could not have been that long after humans worked out how to speak, and then how to use symbols to write down words, that slander, and its sister, libel, came along.
And it is likely that punishments and remedies for this kind of behavior did not...
DATE: Jan 18, 2011
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Every now and then, it is good to give out praise where it is due. Here goes:
Last week, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Senator Kim Wilson was criticised in this space for saying she would not be paying a parking ticket as she believed that sh...
DATE: Jan 13, 2011
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Political parties are formed because people of similar political philosophies join together to try to gain power in order to put those ideas to work.
It’s that simple, and it’s what makes the talks now apparently going on between the United Bermuda ...
DATE: Jan 12, 2011
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There's an old Calvinist idea, very popular in the days of flinty New England puritanism that helps to explain why Americans launched their revolution against Britain and why there is today such a thing as American exceptionalism.
It is the idea that...
DATE: Jan 07, 2011
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There was a time when the Tourism Board counted as one of the more important statutory boards in Bermuda.
While the Minister of Tourism’s decisions were final, the board vetted contracts, was engaged in marketing Bermuda and had real sway.
Over tim...
DATE: Jan 05, 2011
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