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Journalism can make a positive difference. While the value of the free press is sometimes underappreciated by those who dismiss significant stories as “negative”, the end result of airing even an ugly truth is often a win for the community. That is h...
DATE: Jul 18, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
John Rankin has had a pretty rough time of it from the moment he was sworn in as Governor of Bermuda — a mere ten days after civil unrest, literally on the streets of Parliament.
Starting from the fallout of December 2, 2016, a date that will be infa...
DATE: Jun 26, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
One step forward, two steps backward.
Push, pull.
Accusation, counter-accusation.
Punch, counterpunch.
Just when we think we’re getting somewhere, actually we’re not.
This entire mess over Bermuda’s political leaders tearing strips out of the country...
DATE: Jun 08, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
When the Bermuda cricket team slipped back into the country from Malaysia last month with tails between their legs, ill-gotten confidence shot and with a new-found but deserved status as a backwater division five outfit that was so entirely predictab...
DATE: Jun 01, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
Another day, another chancer who overtakes blindly, playing chicken with our lives.
Another day, another incompetent who point-blank refuses to signal.
Another day, another incessant tailgater who leaves us no room for error.
Another day, another ho...
DATE: May 30, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
Given that the One Bermuda Alliance has a mere 12 seats in Parliament, and generally appears to be at a crossroads fighting for its existence, you would imagine there might be a tad bit more urgency to fill the void left by the resignations of Jeff B...
DATE: May 11, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
Since David Burt threw his toys out of the pram in reaction to the appointment of Narinder Hargun as the next Chief Justice, the media have been consistent in asking, “Why?”
Why is the Government so opposed to someone who comes with impeccable creden...
DATE: May 11, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
Whatever one thinks about David Burt — and these days, it’s mostly positive — he is the Premier of Bermuda.
The leader of the country.
How is it, then, that someone can be alleged to have threatened to put a hole in his head, and pull him out of his...
DATE: May 11, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
When all’s said and done, it was actually pretty boring. As a contest, that is. When you add all the emotion pouring out of the crowds lined all through Hamilton, of course, it was anything but.
Simply put, we’re used to this now. Flora Duffy dominat...
DATE: Apr 30, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
There was a time when Jeff Baron and Michael Dunkley, the former Premier of Bermuda, were inseparable. They were like peas in a pod, one entirely in step with the other, looking to do “the people’s business”, an impressively indefatigable and well-ma...
DATE: Apr 27, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion