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“Everyone falls in love sometime
Sometimes it’s wrong, and sometimes it’s right
For every win, someone must fail
But there comes a point when
When we exhale ...
If you were a fella at the end of the ultimate chick flick and discovered when the ligh...
DATE: Jul 18, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
Times such as these beg the question as to whether the two-party, Westminster-style political system serves Bermuda well. Could our small community do without organised party politics and instead have a nonpartisan system with all elected Members of ...
DATE: Jul 12, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
If Michael Dunkley did not feel particularly isolated in the House of Assembly by his own refusal to vote on the Human Rights Amendment Act 2016 on Friday, the fallout from the vote has left him on a veritable Gilligan’s Island.
Not only has the Prem...
DATE: Jul 11, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
Cup Match 2016 is less than three weeks away and how we wish we had more time. But time waits for no one, and so it is inevitable that the Annual Classic goes ahead with the spectre of Fiqre Crockwell hanging over it.
Not only has the murder of the S...
DATE: Jul 08, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
It was a time of seemingly unlimited possibilities in Bermuda and she came to embody that time.
Elegant, poised and strikingly intelligent, Jacqueline Swan was Bermuda’s de facto First Lady between 1982 and 1995, when her husband, long-time Premier ...
DATE: Jul 05, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
The economy may be growing again but the number of jobs is not. That was one of the conclusions that could be drawn from the Bermuda Job Market Employment Briefs report published last week.
Based on a survey of employers in the first week of Septembe...
DATE: Jul 01, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
So Bermuda has spoken on same-sex marriage and civil unions. Well, 46.89 per cent of registered voters have spoken.
Semantics.
No matter the invalidity or illegality of an already non-binding referendum, significantly more than the previously agreed...
DATE: Jun 27, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
The greatest assist the “Yes, Yes” campaigners could have received in the run-up to the same-sex marriage and civil unions referendum this week came from an unlikely source.
No, not Sir John Swan, but Omar Mateen.
When the radicalised New Yorker of i...
DATE: Jun 21, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
Sir John Swan may best be described as an idealist without illusions. He is a man whose boldly optimistic vision of what Bermuda has the potential to be has always been tempered by an intuitive understanding of life’s harder realities.
His ability t...
DATE: Jun 19, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
Highly thoughtful and deliberative, Chief Justice Ian Kawaley is a man not to be taken anything but seriously. And before issuing a recent ruling upholding the legality of the pending referendum on same-sex marriage and civil unions, he bluntly descr...
DATE: Jun 17, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion