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So this is it. The time has come. All the planning, practising, foot stomping, politicking and praying since Sir Russell Coutts and Grant Gibbons hoisted the gleaming “Auld Mug” at the forefront of a motorcade for the ages have led to this one grand ...
DATE: May 27, 2017
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RG: In our Opinion
In seven days’ time, Bermuda will be the sporting centre of the world. Given that the 35th America Cup will have no shortage of global competition between May 26 and June 27 from the “small matters” of the FA Cup Final (English football), French Open...
DATE: May 19, 2017
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RG: In our Opinion
At not long after lunchtime yesterday, a casual look outdoors revealed the sky was not falling; nor was it red.
Upon further inspection, a saunter towards the coastlines revealed there was no tsunami hurtling towards Bermuda to send us whence we came...
DATE: May 06, 2017
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RG: In our Opinion
It cannot be easy being a young person approaching adulthood — in this or any generation. On one hand being told that you are the future while on the other having some “long in the tooth” know-it-all highlight your inexperience has to be utterly frus...
DATE: May 05, 2017
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RG: In our Opinion
We live in times where perception is everything; where Bermudians, in particular a growing segment of black Bermudians, are wound so tightly that even the merest implication of offence can set them off in a frenzy of sought-after retribution.
Before...
DATE: Apr 17, 2017
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RG: In our Opinion
The green shoots of recovery are here. No, we are not talking about the economy — well done to the government of the day, by the way, for its part in reversing the downturn — but the lifeblood of this country: our people.
Saving lives and turning aro...
DATE: Apr 07, 2017
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RG: In our Opinion
Gratuitous violence and the country’s apparent indifference to it have struck again. That the most recent act of pure cowardice took place on Court Street is neither here nor there. That it happened at all, in the heat of the day, in the middle of a ...
DATE: Mar 23, 2017
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RG: In our Opinion
Congratulations indeed are in order for Freddie Evans on his appointment as Commissioner of Education. He has made a lasting contribution to education in Bermuda, is well respected by his peers, having been in the system at grassroots level for as lo...
DATE: Mar 10, 2017
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RG: In our Opinion
It was the Robin Hood Budget in which Bob Richards took from the rich and gave to the less well-off.
At least that’s how the finance minister would doubtless like it to be portrayed in an election year in which he has scant leeway to dish out sweete...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017
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“Some call it tampee
Some call it weed
Some call it marijuana
Some of them call it ganja
Legalise it and don’t criticise it
Legalise it, ye-ah, ye-ah, and I will advertise it”
It has been more than 40 years since the release of Peter Tosh’s signature...
DATE: Feb 24, 2017
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RG: In our Opinion