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Dear Sir,
Status delays. This is the principal reason why 5,000 residents have recently left the island and it is also the main cause of the financial difficulties affecting local businesses.
Further, it significantly increases government debt, which...
DATE: Aug 19, 2016
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Dear Sir,
Senior groups spread across Bermuda, extend their heartfelt sympathy to Jean Howes’s immediate family and friends on her passing. We’re going to miss Jean performing country-and-western foot-stomping songs and her mentoring of schoolchildre...
DATE: Aug 19, 2016
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Dear Sir,
Is it true that black lives matter? What a rhetorical and mischievous query this is. Of course black lives matter, given the sanctity of all human life.
Life is a gift bestowed by God on all mankind and as such should be hallowed as preciou...
DATE: Aug 18, 2016
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Dear Sir,
I would like to congratulate the efforts of Wendell Hollis and his family for creating a new website called Bringing Bermuda Back.
They have also cleaned a lot of Bermuda’s roadsides in an effort to ensure that they help in bringing Bermuda...
DATE: Aug 18, 2016
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Dear Sir,
I’m not sure if many people in Bermuda would still remember her, but it is with great sorrow that I have to report the recent untimely death of Sheila Forrest, in Ballachulish, Argyll. Sheila was the Warwick Parish district nurse from 1969 ...
DATE: Aug 16, 2016
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Dear Sir,
On Page 9 of the August 13 edition of The Royal Gazette, there was an article in which the Ministry of Public Works reminded owners of roadside properties that they are responsible for trimming back overhanging — over public roads — trees a...
DATE: Aug 16, 2016
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Dear Sir,
We have a limited amount of space for opinion pieces, which I mention to point out that it is not possible to address every matter of import related to this subject. But I could see that some white people living in an integrated island are ...
DATE: Aug 16, 2016
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Dear Sir,
Congratulations to the participants and organisers of the past weekend’s Round The Island Powerboat Race. What a mouthwatering, heart-stopping spectacle.
My crew and I had a first-hand view of the race from our boat, anchored off Pompano Be...
DATE: Aug 16, 2016
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Dear Sir,
It just confuses me when I hear Bermudians using the word “national” as though it truly applies to Bermuda. Honestly, it really makes me laugh. We as a people need to just stop kidding ourselves and find out what is the true meaning and def...
DATE: Aug 13, 2016
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Dear Sir,
I admire the Lois Browne Evans Building every time I am in the vicinity of Church Street, Court Street and Victoria Street. Having been in the building most of my life, I think of the planning, architecture and erecting of a wonderful struc...
DATE: Aug 13, 2016
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