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Government has taken a lot of stick, much of it deserved, for failing to address the loss of jobs in the community and the departure of businesses from the Island.
Estimates vary, but there’s no question that thousands of jobs have been lost and tho...
DATE: Aug 30, 2012
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August is well known in the media for being “silly season”, when stories that would usually disappear without trace get unwarranted attention and jump up news lists as many newsmakers take well earned vacations.
That may explain why Bermuda’s plans t...
DATE: Aug 28, 2012
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The second quarter tourism arrivals released on Friday will have been met with some disappointment, and rightly so.
The slight improvement in arrivals in the first quarter, coupled with the biennial Newport Bermuda Race, gave rise to hopes that ther...
DATE: Aug 27, 2012
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MP Charlie Swan’s plans to bring a motion in the House of Assembly calling for a national lottery to be used to fund youth development in sports, arts and music is in line with this newspaper’s long-standing position on gambling.
For about two decad...
DATE: Aug 24, 2012
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In 2007, according to the Department of Statistics, construction projects worth $330 million were carried out in Bermuda. In 2008, at the very height of the construction boom, $457 million in work was carried out.
In 2011, that number had shrunk to ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2012
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Two stories have emerged in the US as big talking points over the last couple of days.
Both deal, at some level, with the position of women in society. One shows how much progress women are making at being treated as equals. The other shows how much...
DATE: Aug 21, 2012
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There’s a scene in a recently released movie about a group of older Britons going for a holiday in India in which a frazzled guest, exasperated with the terrible quality of the hotel, points to the brochure and demands: “I want to stay in this hotel....
DATE: Aug 20, 2012
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Because this is a subject that has been discussed at length before, its important to establish several points at the beginning.
The first is that the service at the Transport Control Department and the vehicle testing centre is vastly improved, both...
DATE: Aug 17, 2012
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Shadow Minister for Seniors Louise Jackson has said that many pensioners would be getting a surprise this week when they received land tax bills as their 100 percent exemption was removed.
Mrs Jackson was not overly critical of the Government for th...
DATE: Aug 16, 2012
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Rating Bermuda’s performance in the London Olympics — or any sporting event for that matter — is not a job for the fainthearted, as The Royal Gazette’s sports department found out last week.
Comments that Bermuda fell short of medalling and that the...
DATE: Aug 14, 2012
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