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It’s axiomatic that in order to grow Bermuda’s stunted economy we will have to grow the population.
It’s also axiomatic that any repetition of the unconstrained growth Bermuda experienced during the first decade of the 21st century will lead to an im...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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A speech by the head of the Women’s Resource Centre turning the spotlight on the often hidden crimes of sexual abuse, harassment and misconduct is a timely intervention in the wake of controversy over a proposed documentary on the brutal rape and mur...
DATE: Apr 24, 2014
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William Howard Taft, the only man ever to serve as both President and Chief Justice of the United States, once said of Bermuda that never before in history had such a small location played such a disproportionately large role on the world stage.
He m...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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The university town of Oxford has long been known as England’s City of Dreaming Spires. Bermuda’s Hamilton, by way of comparison, might once have merited the designation “City of Scheming Squires”. Throughout its almost 200 year history Hamilton’s La...
DATE: Apr 22, 2014
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We have overspent and under-saved. The base of our income has been eroded by our attitudes, policies and the changes taking place in the global economies.
And we continue to remain in economic depression as indicated by the contraction of Bermuda’s G...
DATE: Apr 21, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Sir John Swan
A century ago Bermuda had become so closely identified with this season of reawakening and rebirth it was routinely referred to as “The Easter Isle” in the North American press.
At the time the Island dominated fully 90 percent of the Easter Lily mar...
DATE: Apr 19, 2014
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Bermuda’s beaches are among the genuine wonders of the natural world, celebrated in art, poetry and song and synonymous with the Island in the minds of vacationers and armchair travellers alike.
Despite the post-Second World War building boom which h...
DATE: Apr 17, 2014
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It’s one of the eternal verities, an almost always reliable rule of thumb: being able to immediately identify the true man of vision because his ideas, no matter how commonsensical or necessary, initially inspire near-universal hostility.
New approa...
DATE: Apr 16, 2014
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The tribalism of two-party politics in Bermuda has never been kind to Independent Parliamentarians.
To forego party allegiance is, traditionally, to find oneself alone in the political wilderness on a short route to obscurity. Not for Terry Lister. ...
DATE: Mar 18, 2014
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It may be the most difficult balancing act since the Great Blondin became the first man to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope in 1859.
But Finance Minister Bob Richards — in the first full OBA Budget since the party won power in 2012 — will have to s...
DATE: Feb 21, 2014
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