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Europe could turn off the tap of wealth and prosperity that Bermuda has enjoyed through its offshore international business. In a new perspective placed on the Independence debate, residents have been asked to consider what might happen to Bermuda?s ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2006
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July 8, 2006
I SHARE many of Alvin Williams’ justified concerns with the more militant manifestations of Zionism. Zionism is not, as Mr. Williams correctly pointed out in his most recent Commentary (Mid-Ocean News, July 7), a religious or cultural mo...
DATE: Jul 14, 2006
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Opposition leader Wayne Furbert wants to let the voters decide the big issues of the day via referendums.
He said citizen?s initiatives have a lot of public support and would stop politicians pushing through unpopular schemes.
Mr. Furbert said: ?If w...
DATE: Jul 14, 2006
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Last weekend?s July 4th celebration brought a whole new approach to being a good neighbour when it donated 2,000 meals to prisoners and the Salvation Army on Saturday.
Spectacular fireworks that lit up the sky above Moresby Plain on Ireland Island, d...
DATE: Jul 10, 2006
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WITH the latest flare-up of violence between the Palestinians and the state of Israel, we are once again seeing a modern version of the Indian wars that took place on the North American continent in the 19th century when settlers of European descent ...
DATE: Jul 07, 2006
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June 23, 2006THERE are other ways of trying to “Keep up with the Joneses” or copying others which are just as destructive as those commented on this week by your columnist Alvin Williams. Recently, President George Bush once again reminded Americans ...
DATE: Jul 07, 2006
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Early showers did not stop over 4,000 people from celebrating Independence Day at Moresby Plain, Dockyard on Saturday.
A spectacular 30-minute fireworks display ? which US Consul General Gregory Slayton called the largest ever seen in Bermuda? capped...
DATE: Jul 03, 2006
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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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