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Dr Barbara Ball was a woman of true courage who stood up for her beliefs at a time when doing so brought with it a high financial and professional cost.
The first female doctor to be given privileges at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, she operated...
DATE: Mar 15, 2011
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The Westminster system of parliamentary democracy depends on discipline, and a certain level of dishonesty, to work.
That’s because MPs are expected to support the government’s programme even when they disagree with parts of it. If they are Cabinet ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2011
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The chairmen of the Board of Education and their Ministers have not always seen eye to eye in recent years, so it was good to see current chairman Darren Johnston backing Minister Dame Jennifer Smith this week.
As Bermuda tries to improve public educ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2011
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Trying to predict what will happen in Bermuda’s tourism industry when it is only March is always dangerous.
Much can go wrong, and much of that is out of Bermuda’s control, not least an unstable global climate which could affect prices and people’s ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2011
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There is no doubt that the decision on the Tucker’s Point Special Development Order is difficult. It is a classic public interest debate in which the community’s different needs have to be weighed before a decision is made.
The arguments in favour o...
DATE: Mar 08, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox raised a few eyebrows when she suggested that after Government had reduced spending in this year’s Budget, that now the private sector, and more specifically, members of the Business Bermuda trade organization, should do the same by...
DATE: Mar 07, 2011
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We live in a world in which attention deficit disorder is not a syndrome limited to a few children, but is something that affects our whole society.
The sound bite and the catch-phrase have replaced real analysis and debate. If it can’t be said in a...
DATE: Feb 28, 2011
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When you want to trim $90 million from a $1 billion Budget, it’s a given that sacrifices have to be made across the board and all arms of Government have to be more efficient.
But it does not make sense to cut heavily into those parts of Government t...
DATE: Feb 23, 2011
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Former Premier Dr Ewart Brown pinpointed one of the most vexing problems for politicians when he said that people often say they want change, but rarely want to be the change.
Dr Brown was referring to education, where despite a broad consensus in fa...
DATE: Feb 21, 2011
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At the end of her Budget Statement, Premier Paula Cox turned a statement of John F Kennedy’s around when she quoted him saying that the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
“What he didn’t say was that if you wait too long for it to st...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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