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Dear Sir,
In 1969, when Bermuda changed from pound sterling to Bermuda dollars, the exchange rate with the US dollar was on par, ie, one Bermuda dollar equalled one US dollar.
The exchange rate in Jamaica in 1969 was 1.20 Jamaican dollars for one US...
DATE: Dec 12, 2022
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Are you all keeping up? If you think you had a tough day at the office, consider what happened last Friday, just one day in the life of Bermuda politics:
Friday, December 2, 2022, House of Assembly — AM session:
The Government released a se...
DATE: Dec 07, 2022
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Dear Sir,
The Attorney-General spoke recently about self-government. I was under the impression Bermuda is Britain's oldest self-governing colony. It has only been in recent years that the passing of the Cannabis Bill was denied by the Governor and ...
DATE: Nov 29, 2022
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I note the comments of Philip “Brave" Davis, the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, as reported in yesterday's Royal Gazette (October 21, 2022). He states that ”there’s a universal right for a person to determine his or her own destiny both ind...
DATE: Nov 04, 2022
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Dear Sir,
The Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Philip Davis, is quoted in today’s Royal Gazette (October 21, 2022) as saying: “I think there’s a universal right for a person to determine his or her own destiny both individually and collectively, not in...
DATE: Oct 25, 2022
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Dear Sir,
The Royal Gazette has been quoted in The Washington Post stating a spokeswoman from Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda describing independence as “a natural progression” and goes on to be quoted, “it is very difficult to see how being...
DATE: Sep 28, 2022
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Dear Sir,
“On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your pain level?”
This is a question which is almost always asked when we go to the doctor for something which ails us. Sounds pretty straightforward, right? But it’s not, actually.
Patient care is broadly ca...
DATE: Sep 02, 2022
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Dear Sir,
I have written before about the senior management of our Civil Service, which is a key factor in its level of accountability and efficiency. I identified what I believe to be the fatal flaw in its structure and here is a brief recap:
We kno...
DATE: Jul 25, 2022
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Dear Sir,
I just hope that our premier thanked the British Government for sending a free vaccine supply to Bermuda, as a UK Overseas Territory. I have never heard a word of appreciation from the Premier for this gesture, but perhaps he has written to...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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Dear Sir,
The cannabis regulations were approved in the House of Assembly recently and there has been some discussion regarding the wording of the Bill, which our attorney-general, Kathy Lynn Simmons, said “prescribes uses beyond ‛medical and scient...
DATE: Mar 02, 2021
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