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There have been hopeful signs of late that Bermuda’s long identity crisis as a tourism destination may finally be approaching some kind of successful resolution.
After 30 years of increasingly desperate Tourism Ministry attempts to market Bermuda as ...
DATE: Oct 04, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
RG: In our opinion
“They believed us and perished for it. Our statecraft, our learning
Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning.” – Rudyard Kipling
In the course of less than one desperate hour on the morning of September 22, 1914 a l...
DATE: Oct 02, 2014
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Bermudian politics once held the anticipatory suspense of an empty stage at curtain time along with the unlimited promise of freeing the Island from the heavy burden of its past.
In the 1960s and ’70s Parliament went from being a rubber-stamp for dec...
DATE: Sep 30, 2014
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Harry Potter, it seems, has worked a kind of practical magic on his worldwide readership.
It’s been seven years since the last volume in the bestselling literary series of all time, the estimable Harry Potter & The Deathly Hollows, appeared and autho...
DATE: Sep 20, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
A succession of recent tragedies cannot help but bring to mind another summer 75 years past when, as the poet said, “waves of anger and fear” spread around the world and “the unmentionable odour of death offends the September night.”
In the Near Eas...
DATE: Sep 17, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
It’s one of Bermuda’s dirtiest — and worst kept — little secrets.
Domestic abuse is an increasingly ugly reality on the Island. But it is a subject which is all too talked around rather than talked about in polite company.
Despite commendable efforts...
DATE: Sep 09, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
Parliament will reconvene shortly, and if the past six months are any indicator, there is little reason to hope that the backbiting, divisiveness, and playground-level politics that have become the Island’s hallmark will change any time soon.
Sensibl...
DATE: Sep 04, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
It is hard to believe that the majority of people living in today’s Bermuda have any real appreciation for what true censorship entails.
There are places in the world where thoughts, beliefs, speech, and daily lives, right down to the clothes people ...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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This is the seventh in a mulipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
For generations Bermudians were familiarised almost from birth with the benefits the whole Island derived from the tourism industry.
Our welcoming nature and graciousne...
DATE: Aug 28, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
This is the sixth in a multipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
By the beginning of the 21st century the traditional Bermudian way of life was coming to an end. This did not occur overnight but with the implacable, steadily accumulati...
DATE: Aug 23, 2014
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AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
