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Today should be a day for lauding the Bermuda cricket team’s perfect start yesterday to the ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier, for patting ourselves on the back for banging on that Delray Rawlins should be representing his homeland, and for praisi...
DATE: Aug 19, 2019
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For the past three years or more, the one bright spot in the Bermuda economy has been the tourism industry.
Helped by the publicity surrounding the 35th America’s Cup and a tightly focused digital marketing strategy, visitor arrivals and the other k...
DATE: Aug 16, 2019
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“Symptomatic treatment” is the phrase medical professionals use to describe attempts to treat the symptoms of a problem rather than its cause.
In her newly announced health insurance reforms, Kim Wilson may have fallen into this trap.
The health mi...
DATE: Aug 12, 2019
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The greatest takeaway from Cup Match 2019 was that Dion Stovell got to accompany his young son in Florida to experience all the joys and thrills that come with visit to places such as Disney World, SeaWorld or Legoland.
That the Somerset all-rounder ...
DATE: Aug 05, 2019
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Only in Bermuda could you have a two-day holiday for a cricket match. Cup Match is so quintessentially Bermudian that the holiday is not alone among the anomalies to be found.
Predominantly amateur cricketers who understandably do not possess the fit...
DATE: Jul 31, 2019
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The recent decision by John Rankin, the Governor — at the request of David Burt, the Premier — to give the Reverend Charles Vinton Monk a full pardon for his conviction for criminal libel rights an historic wrong and sets an important precedent for t...
DATE: Jul 22, 2019
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Much fuss is being made over whether Stephen Corbishley, the Commissioner of Police, is right to throw the full weight of the Bermuda Police Service behind the Pride parade next month.
But while there may be merit to either side of these incessant a...
DATE: Jul 17, 2019
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Bermuda’s public access to information regime faces its biggest challenge since it was passed into law nine years ago.
The announcement by Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, that he will not release the KPMG report into San...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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If it wasn’t already obvious, Friday’s session of Parliament made the Progressive Labour Party’s distaste for public access to information, and, let’s face it, accountability, abundantly clear. Despite being the party that tabled and passed the legis...
DATE: Jul 11, 2019
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The knock on Bermuda football historically is that we have produced some fantastic individuals but few fantastic teams. Generational players but rarely a team for the generations. Kyle Lightbourne, one of the few who could be said to fit into the for...
DATE: Jun 24, 2019
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