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By-elections are notoriously poor indicators of General Elections and there is always a danger of reading too much into them. Nonetheless, there are several conclusions that can be drawn from Marc Bean’s thumping victory in Warwick South Central on W...
DATE: Dec 17, 2010
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Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox’s promise last week to review pensions and health care is a welcome one.
Ms Cox may have engaged in some hyperbole when she described them in the House of Assembly as the two “hottest issues facing policymakers...
DATE: Dec 16, 2010
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In February, this newspaper and others took Finance Minister and now Premier Paula Cox to task for raising taxes, and especially the payroll tax, in the Budget when the Island was in recession.
The criticism was twofold. First, raising taxes when in...
DATE: Dec 13, 2010
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The following article is based on the newly released report entitled The Role of Agriculture in Bermuda’s Future. Researched and prepared by Aran McKittrick, the report seeks to summarise some of the historic and modern challenges facing the agricult...
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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Government's legal initiatives for narrowing the gap between white and black attainment in Bermuda are well intentioned, but poorly thought out.
Premier Ewart Brown's "Goodwill Plus" initiative has probably been criticised more because he did such a...
DATE: Oct 15, 2007
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