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Lifestyle choices at the heart of driving up cost, putting unsustainable pressure on the health system
DATE: Mar 14, 2022
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RG: In our Opinion
Bermuda Football Association is wrong to give public the silent treatment over referees’ boycott
DATE: Mar 02, 2022
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RG: In our Opinion
In yesterday’s Budget Statement, David Burt made this observation: “There are many persons in our community who, in some way, shape or form, have become disillusioned by politics and government.”
The reason for this, the Premier and now finance minis...
DATE: Feb 26, 2022
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RG: In our Opinion
Typically, opinions about the upcoming Budget given in the days and hours before it is delivered are exercises in futility.
The Budget is usually already written and should be coming back from the printers by the time most of these viewpoints are de...
DATE: Feb 25, 2022
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RG: In our Opinion
Julian Hall, the late lawyer and politician, once had a newspaper column called “Through the Looking Glass”.
He said he named it after the sequel to Alice in Wonderland because in the Lewis Carroll novel, Alice enters a strange new world through a l...
DATE: Feb 24, 2022
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RG: In our Opinion
Picture the attendant photograph for a minute. Taken at a Progressive Labour Party family fun day, it represented everything that was fresh, young and, let’s say, progressive, about a movement on the rise: the green machine.
A tsunami that swept up e...
DATE: Feb 16, 2022
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RG: In our Opinion
“Learning to live with Covid” must be an early front-runner for the most used phrase of 2022.
It is precisely what most communities have been doing since it became clear that the Covid-19 pandemic would not go away of its own volition and that vacci...
DATE: Feb 11, 2022
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RG: In our Opinion
It is more than timely that the benefits of attracting world-class sport to our shores have manifested in the donation of almost $650,000 to charity by the 2021 Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
In a week that has been dominated by calls from politic...
DATE: Feb 07, 2022
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RG: In our Opinion
Imagine you are the Premier, and the family of a frail, elderly woman contacts you and pleads for help because a Progressive Labour Party House of Assembly candidate owes her substantial rent arrears — what do you do?
Well, if you’re David Burt, you ...
DATE: Jan 26, 2022
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RG: In our Opinion
January is meant to be a month of hope. A month to set us on the path to redemption and renewal after the travails and challenges of the 12 months gone by.
A month of new year’s resolutions.
But this has been a cussed two or three years, and instea...
DATE: Jan 21, 2022
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RG: In our Opinion