111 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "Letters to the Editor"
June 8, 2011
Dear Sir,
I can't help but notice that the issue of Independence is being dusted off again by various politicians and others. Of course, if we had put the issue to a Referendum (like a majority of the public was calling for) the last tim...
DATE: Jun 16, 2011
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June 8, 2011
Dear Sir,
Hands up everyone who thinks racism has disappeared in the United States in the 235 years since America declared its independence (or “decolonialised”, if you want) from Britain in 1776. Now hands up everyone who thinks the sp...
DATE: Jun 16, 2011
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May 31, 2011
Dear Sir,
For me, a reliable indicator of an approaching general election is when the PLP raises the issue of Independence for Bermuda, which Marc Bean and Walter Lister apparently did in a recent Motion to Adjourn in our House of Assemb...
DATE: Jun 07, 2011
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May 31, 2011
Dear Sir,
I applaud the “Report from the House” written by the RG's Sam Strangeways and Tim Smith which was printed on May 30, 2011. In that report, new MP Marc Bean took up the topic of Independence during the Motion to Adjourn and he s...
DATE: Jun 07, 2011
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Dear Sir,
While I am not totally opposed to the idea of an Independent Bermuda, I am totally against it under our current conditions and government.
How can Mr Bean and Mr Lister think we'd be able to quash racial tensions by being Independent? I rea...
DATE: Jun 06, 2011
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May 29, 2011
Dear Sir,
I would like to answer the question voiced by Walter Lister in the Report from the House in Monday's Royal Gazette. He asks “What does Britain do for you”?
The answers are numerous. But first and foremost it connects us with t...
DATE: Jun 06, 2011
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May 22, 2011
Dear Sir,
I have now completed far more important things in life than an earlier answering of the wayward, rambling, incoherent rants of Bob Stewart and the thinly disguised adverse sophistry of your Friday, May 13, 2011 editorial on pri...
DATE: May 27, 2011
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March 23, 2011
Dear Sir,
For quite some time now I have been giving politics in Bermuda a great deal of thought, especially the notion of improving it for the benefit of the electorate. My conclusion is that Bermuda and her people would be better ser...
DATE: Apr 07, 2011
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February 22, 2011
Dear Sir,
I would like to respond to the letter submitted by “SUVs Should RIP” in today's Gazette (February 22, 2011). RIP, I find your letter to be as ignorant as it is offensive. Clearly you have no idea why some people need to u...
DATE: Mar 10, 2011
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Are we all complicit?
January 7, 2011
Dear Sir,
We opposed apartheid in South Africa because it was a disgracefully racist, unjust system. We managed to force industries, banks and businesses to stop doing business with South Africa. The dismantling ...
DATE: Jan 12, 2011
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