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In today’s economic climate, many households do not have $5,000 lying around in loose change. Those who are swimming in it can afford to throw down five large on a poker table and not lose a moment’s sleep, but for most of us such an outlay requires...
DATE: Sep 08, 2017
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It remains to be seen whether Nahki Wells can match the feats of Clyde Best and Shaun Goater in England’s top division, but he does have a record already that may never be broken by a Bermudian footballer.
Wells, who was playing with local club Dandy...
DATE: Sep 01, 2017
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When is freedom of expression no longer free? When you cannot be held accountable for it.
Almost two years ago, The Royal Gazette revised policy on Letters to the Editor whereby we discontinued the practice of allowing our local readers, and those fr...
DATE: Sep 01, 2017
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When Conor McGregor returned to his corner at the end of the third round of his megabout with Floyd Mayweather Jr in the very early hours of Sunday morning, the farce that is expected to earn him and his conqueror a combined $400 million was fully ex...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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Watching the sorry plight yesterday of a Bermudian in England being kicked off a flight to Los Angeles re-emphasised the urgency that is required to get our passport affairs in order with the British Government.
MacInnis Looby, a former champion cycl...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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Article II of the US Constitution is the presidential job description, defining and enumerating the responsibilities and formal powers of that office.
But as every American president since George Washington has eventually discovered, the most import...
DATE: Aug 21, 2017
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Harry Truman once demanded to see a one-armed economist after growing exasperated with those practitioners of what’s been called “the dismal science” who provided “on the one hand … but on the other hand” answers to his every question on fiscal polic...
DATE: Aug 18, 2017
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Election postmortems tend to be more Rorschach Test than rigorous analytical exercise: those conducting them usually see what they are predisposed to see, ignore information which does not conform to their pre-existing notions and rely on gut instinc...
DATE: Aug 16, 2017
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It’s often said that more tears are shed over answered prayers than the unanswered variety, and this holds particularly true in the political field.
The Progressive Labour Party defied its own expectations with last month’s stunning election victory ...
DATE: Aug 11, 2017
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It really wasn’t so much a tale of “Two Bermudas”, to borrow one of the Progressive Labour Party’s political slogans.
Rather the story of the 2017 Bermuda election was, in large measure, a tale of two radically different approaches to election campa...
DATE: Aug 07, 2017
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