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A fully-fledged Independent Bermuda might retain the Queen as Head of State in the manner of 15 countries of the Commonwealth. Maintaining some link with her former colonial master even if it is merely membership of the Commonwealth of Nations of mos...
DATE: Jun 30, 2006
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June 28, 2006
ON Monday morning we were woken bright and early with a VSB news flash from our very own “democratically” elected/selected P. — an excerpt from his winding-up speech for this Parliamentary session. Just in case anyone has managed to mis...
DATE: Jun 30, 2006
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I HAVE always been loath to criticise people who have accepted a Queen’s honour because I have considered that is their personal right to accept or decline such awards. However, from a personal point of view, my position would be quite clear if such ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2006
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Bermuda's reputation as a safe place for tourists is being eroded by a small number of criminals stealing from visitors on the beach, snatching bags from the baskets on the back of tourist mopeds or actually breaking into their guest house and hotel ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2006
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A new perspective has been put on the ?house nigger? controversy by after he said he did not agree with name calling.
But he went on to explain his interpretation of the origins of the phrase and why it continues to cause so much anguish in Bermudian...
DATE: Jun 24, 2006
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THE letter writer Veritas (Mid-Ocean News, May 20) states that trying to engage me in a rational discussion on Independence is as unprofitable and exhausting an exercise as challenging an octopus with no sense of fair play to an arm-wrestling competi...
DATE: Jun 23, 2006
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Tourists hospitalised after scooter accident
A vacationing couple had to be hospitalised on Wednesday night after an accident on their rental scooter.
The couple was travelling east on Middle Road in Smith?s, near Store Hill, when the driver, a 56-ye...
DATE: Jun 23, 2006
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October 18, 2006
SO the curtain is up on Act II of a saga some hack would no doubt title Brown’s Revenge. With the score left unsettled after the first attempt to seat Dr. Brown as Premier, it seems another bloodless coup is in the offing. And melodr...
DATE: Jun 23, 2006
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Former Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness has hit out over the mishandling of Queen?s Certificates offered to all members of the Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC) except Eddy DeMello.
Mr. Edness said Mr. DeMello should have been given an OBE if...
DATE: Jun 21, 2006
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DATE: Jun 20, 2006
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