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Dear Sir,As I follow the same-sex marriage debate and try to understand the Government’s proposed solution of civil union legislation, I have to wonder if that approach isn’t the second coming of the “separate but equal” doctrine.While I have not yet...
DATE: Feb 24, 2016
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Dear Sir,It is very distressing to hear the latest news that the One Bermuda Alliance is proposing amendments to the Human Rights Act to ensure that the existing marriage act is paramount to it and to maintain the legal definition of marriage between...
DATE: Feb 23, 2016
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Dear Sir,It is needful, I believe, during these extremely heady times, that we the residents of these islands take pause to give thanks to almighty God, and also to reflect upon the manifold blessings that He, in His mercy and long suffering and good...
DATE: Feb 23, 2016
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A response to Bryant Trew,I wish to commend you on your recent article, “If the shoe were on the other foot” (RG, February 19, 2016). What I found particularly poignant was your argument below:“This, of course, begs the question, why are those veheme...
DATE: Feb 22, 2016
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Dear Sir,On February 12, Wayne Furbert brought a Bill to the floor of the House entitled the “Human Rights Amendment Act 2016”. As reported, the substance of this Bill is that it amends the existing Human Rights Act to legalise a discriminatory defin...
DATE: Feb 22, 2016
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Dear Sir,
On Friday, February 5, we stopped at Crown & Anchor bar in the Hamilton Princess. We saw a Mollydooker blend, which costs about $30 a bottle at wine stores.
We were absolutely flabbergasted when we were charged $22 per glass. How can a bar ...
DATE: Feb 20, 2016
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The following is in regard to a few statements made in today’s Royal Gazette (February 15). I do not want to debate the issue that grocery prices are too high in Bermuda, but I would like to comment on two statements made in that front-page...
DATE: Feb 20, 2016
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Dear Sir,
Despite Bermuda’s passing of legislation that introduced discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation being about 13 years behind the rest of the developed world, I’m sure people island-wide celebrated this new development....
DATE: Feb 20, 2016
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Dear Sir,
The issues facing the West Indian blacks in the latter 19th century reverberated all across the region with an exodus of out migrations impacting Cuba, Costa Rica, Panama, the United States and Bermuda.
Fifty-plus years up from slavery, th...
DATE: Feb 20, 2016
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Dear Sir,
Some time ago you printed a headline story about a food shortage in Bermuda. There should then be no surprise that prices are high. Appearances are misleading.
Bermuda food prices have been in a non-stop upward spiral. Shipments come to mer...
DATE: Feb 20, 2016
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