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We are less than a week into the New Year and already two Bermuda families are mourning two more road traffic fatalities.
The latest tragedies will doubtless prompt the usual expressions of sympathy from politicians, road safety agencies and the pol...
DATE: Jan 06, 2015
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We all of us have spent recent days making pious resolutions in the customary New Year’s manner.
Next week many of us will likely begin paving the road to hell with our good intentions for 2015 in equally time-honoured fashion.
But before we begin c...
DATE: Jan 03, 2015
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It was a Christmas gift to us all, one which didn’t need to be gift-wrapped or festooned with ribbons or even delivered by way of reindeer-drawn sleigh to be a present for the ages.
Earlier this month the Bermuda Cancer & Health Centre announced plan...
DATE: Dec 30, 2014
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Along with the Gombeys and cassava pies, Bermuda citrus was once a fixture of the local Christmas season.
The smell and taste of Washington navel oranges, in particular, will forever be associated with the holiday among those who grew up here when th...
DATE: Dec 22, 2014
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You don’t need cartoonist Peter Woolcock’s highly developed sense of the absurd to recognise the comic possibilities — and improbabilities — of Bermudian politics.
The House of Assembly has, of course, long been the setting for low farce as well as h...
DATE: Dec 12, 2014
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“He nothing common did or mean/Upon that memorable scene …” Andrew Marvell
He was our John Tenniel or Ernest Shepherd or Dr Seuss.
Bermuda was his Wonderland or Hundred Acre Woods or Jungle of Nool.
And we were all of us co-opted as characters in t...
DATE: Dec 09, 2014
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The Island’s history, culture and folkways are so inextricably intertwined with the ocean around us that no less an observer than Charles Dickens remarked 160 years ago: “Every Bermudian, being born within a mile of the water, was bred amphibious ......
DATE: Dec 04, 2014
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RG: In our opinion
With yesterday’s confirmation that Bermuda will indeed serve as the venue for the 35th America’s Cup, defending champion Larry Ellison has made good on his intention to remake the venerable sailing competition in his own unconventi...
DATE: Dec 03, 2014
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It would be a fatuous understatement to suggest Bermuda’s secondary public education system deserves a failing grade. The grim reality is we have offered up generations of Bermuda students as human sacrifices to the false gods of ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2014
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When it comes to event tourism, there are few events bigger than the America’s Cup.
The third largest global sporting competition after the Olympics and the World Cup, the 35th edition of sailing’s blue ribbon event now seems almost certain to be hel...
DATE: Nov 22, 2014
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