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Yesterday’s feature on employment and immigration helped to lay out the two parties’ different positions on this critical election issue.
And the story does illuminate the fact that the Progressive Labour Party and the One Bermuda Alliance do have se...
DATE: Nov 28, 2012
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Although it remains a divisive topic, this newspaper has taken the stance in recent years that people who have committed crimes and paid their debt to society should not be barred from running for office.
But that does not mean that a candidate who ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2012
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One of the advantages of being young is that you can change opinions, or even hold contradictory ones at the same time, and be forgiven for it.
That may be why it is difficult to get a read on young voters in the current election campaign. Recent st...
DATE: Nov 23, 2012
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The Progressive Labour Party’s efforts to throw doubts over the One Bermuda Alliance’s pledge to maintain benefits for FutureCare patients does not seem to be gaining traction.
That’s because it is pretty hard to argue against an unequivocal stateme...
DATE: Nov 21, 2012
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It’s not entirely clear why John Gibbons has stepped down as the Progressive Labour Party candidate for St George’s West, but it provides a new wrinkle in an already complex constituency — one of the most closely watched of this election season.
Wit...
DATE: Nov 19, 2012
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It has all the makings of a great thriller novel about politics.
A journalist gets a politician to admit there is a secret plan to launch a new political party and to fool the public into thinking it is different from a party which was previously def...
DATE: Nov 16, 2012
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Government has been claiming in Town Hall meetings that GCSE pass rates this year are 90 percent or higher — using G as a pass.
Despite repeated requests from this newspaper, the Ministry of Eduction is refusing to release the detailed results until ...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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The 2012 general election has its first dispute.
Students who still face exams on or after December 17 will be unable to vote and they are not happy about this.
This issue has its roots in the 1998 general election, which then-Premier Pamela Gordon ...
DATE: Nov 14, 2012
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It’s no coincidence that both Premier Paula Cox and Opposition Leader Craig Cannonier referred to the past as in, let’s not go back there in their opening salvos of the election campaign.
Ms Cox said: “You have a choice in this election. Let’s move ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2012
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The long wait is over and the general election is finally underway.
It is not hyperbole to say that this election is critically important to Bermuda’s future.
Never before has a free election been held against a backdrop of such severe economic pro...
DATE: Nov 10, 2012
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