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It’s September and Bermuda’s children crept unwillingly back to school this month. Doubtless many of them are already counting the days until the Christmas holidays begin — as are their parents, although for altogether different reasons.
The start of...
DATE: Sep 22, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Bermuda can count itself fortunate to be home to the Green family. Their purchase of the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, the $90 million makeover that has followed, the development of the hotel’s beach club on the site of the former Sonesta hotel in ...
DATE: Sep 17, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Let’s be absolutely clear about what we’re asking for here. We are not calling for an outright ban on helmets with tinted visors. Nor are we calling for a ban on full-faced helmets. What we want is to rid the streets of the dark-tinted visors and tho...
DATE: Sep 16, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
The difference between propaganda and reasoned argument is the difference between a beef bouillon cube and Kobe beef.
Like their counterparts elsewhere, Bermuda’s politicians and their surrogates have a tendency to tailor their preferred public relat...
DATE: Sep 15, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
When we said last Friday that incidents the like of which resulted in the death of Shijuan Mungal last year could happen every day in Bermuda, it was not done to apportion blame to the slain teenager. Nor was it done to take a pop at our young people...
DATE: Sep 14, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
The just concluded murder trial of Kiahna Trott-Edwards is as good a case as any to exemplify the depth of societal breakdown in Bermuda.
Two people, unknown to one another before that fateful day on September 8 last year, thrust into a narrative tha...
DATE: Sep 11, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Economic inequality is increasingly an issue on the Island and not only between those who have jobs and those who do not.
The widening gap between the best paid in our community and the lowest paid should not be ignored. On an Island of this size, t...
DATE: Sep 10, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Not too long ago in historical terms Bermuda really was another world, certainly when it came to its social and cultural development.
The Island’s political and civil arrangements were throwbacks to another era, with its affairs still largely in the ...
DATE: Sep 09, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Short-termism is a common weakness of democracy. More often than not, it seems politicians will shy away from dealing with a major problem that requires making tough, long-term decisions that are likely to be unpopular. This trend is particularly mar...
DATE: Sep 03, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Upon the completion last weekend of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event in Gothenburg, Sweden, all eyes turned genuinely towards Bermuda.
After all that has been said and written, that superyacht of possibilities is heading our way fas...
DATE: Sep 02, 2015
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Editorials
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AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion