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Age Concern’s report in yesterday’s paper on how some seniors are having to make a “Sophie’s Choice” between food and medicine shows how Bermuda is failing to meet the needs of its most vulnerable members.
The problem is not new. It predates the rece...
DATE: Mar 07, 2012
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For some time now, the One Bermuda Alliance has been criticised for not providing enough detail on its policy proposals.
Shadow Finance Minister ET (Bob) Richards’ Reply to the Throne Speech was clearly aimed at answering that criticism as it laid o...
DATE: Mar 05, 2012
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Debate about privatisation of Government services has been reignited as a result of the yawning Budget gap.
The notion of closing that gap by wiping out the losses many Government services incur, along with the injection of cash that would result fr...
DATE: Mar 01, 2012
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Yesterday’s story about the visit of Ryan Miller to see the home of Dakarai Tucker restores faith in mankind, even when we are facing difficult times.
Dakarai Tucker died four years ago at the age of 15, two weeks after suffering a brain aneurysm.
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DATE: Feb 28, 2012
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Premier Paula Cox has defended her Government’s Budget policies of recent years as a choice between austerity and growth.
She has claimed that the policies, along with the rollbacks on payroll taxes and payroll tax relief, have saved something on th...
DATE: Feb 27, 2012
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No one would want to be Finance Minister right now, and that adds to the mystery of why Premier Paula Cox kept the portfolio when she did not have to.
As stated in Thursday’s editorial, Ms Cox is stuck between a rock and a hard place this year, give...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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No one would want to be Finance Minister right now, and that adds to the mystery of why Premier Paula Cox kept the portfolio when she did not have to.
As stated in Thursday’s editorial, Ms Cox is stuck between a rock and a hard place this year, give...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” the great Samuel Johnson once said, and while it would be completely unfair to characterise the Premier in that way, her use of patriotism in attacking Shadow Finance Minister ET (Bob) Richards carried ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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The continuing deterioration in the economy means that Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox is caught between a rock and a hard place as she prepares to deliver the Budget tomorrow.
The growing budget deficit, and all indications are that it is wor...
DATE: Feb 23, 2012
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In 2007, this newspaper warned that the requirement that Bermudians married to non-Bermudians would have to get a licence to own real estate would backfire.
An editorial warned that while the goal of preventing “fronting” was justified, the method w...
DATE: Feb 22, 2012
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