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RG: In our opinion Just as the unswerving route of the old Bermuda Railway cuts across the landscape like a long, straight scar, so the story of controversial land expropriations mars Bermuda’s modern history.
Before construction could begin on that ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2014
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Like most island communities, Bermuda takes a gradualist, exceedingly cautious approach to the flotsam and jetsam of new-fangled ideas and notions from the outside world which wash up on our shores from time to time.
Anything which even remotely thre...
DATE: Jul 12, 2014
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There was nothing remotely glamorous about Bermuda at the end of World War One. This was not yet the Bermuda of “beautiful estates and yachts, of stingers at noon and gin and tonics in the evening” as American journalist and columnist Jim Bishop was ...
DATE: Jul 09, 2014
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William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies is that genuine rarity, an assigned book in secondary schools which is not just read but positively devoured by most teenagers.
The 1954 novel inspires a visceral and almost universal identification among many youn...
DATE: Jul 07, 2014
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Bermuda does best when a rising economic tide lifts all boats, not just the yachts.
President Kennedy’s nautical-themed rule of thumb on shared prosperity seems particularly applicable in the wake of the recent Newport Bermuda classic.
T...
DATE: Jul 05, 2014
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Bermuda residents have not just the right but the duty to question received opinions, especially when they seem to favour the powerful or lazily attempt to justify the manifestly unjust.
And politicians, of course, believe they have the concurrent r...
DATE: Jul 02, 2014
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“Thirty years ago there stood, a few doors short of the church of Saint George, in the borough of Southwark, on the left-hand side of the way going southward, the Marshalsea Prison, (a) close and confined prison for debtors … It had stood there many ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2014
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The period since 2008 has amounted to Bermuda’s Locust Years – the scriptural “years that the locusts hath eaten” — for both the Island as a whole and for too many of its inhabitants.
A worldwide recession of almost unprecedented length and harshnes...
DATE: Jun 27, 2014
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It’s been a Best of Times, Worst of Times few days for those responsible for stemming the flow of illegal drugs into the Island.
A major shipment of heroin with an estimated street value of $1 million was seized at the weekend following what was evid...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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“Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us … All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their time.” — Ecclesiasticus
Those who attain an undeserved standing in any society never really overshadow those who...
DATE: Jun 23, 2014
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