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Government last night remained tight-lipped over plans concerning its long-awaited TV station originally due to go live in June.
Last year, it allotted $840,000 for the project and in this year's budget, set aside $690,000 and five full time staff to...
DATE: Sep 14, 2007
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Bermuda's future Governor paid the Island a flying visit at the end of last week.
The low-key trip was career diplomat Sir Richard Gozney's first trip here ahead of his appointment at the end of the year.
Sir Richard, who is British High Commissioner...
DATE: Sep 10, 2007
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September 3, 2007
THIS letter is prompted by the recent articles on educational matters. I am led to the despairing conclusion that all that will follow will be as ill- advised and unfair as making Rosemary Tyrell the scapegoat.
In the first place sh...
DATE: Sep 07, 2007
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CONTROVERSIAL education chief Ellen-Kate Horton has slammed the public school system as chaotic and "a disaster in the making", according to documents obtained by the Mid-Ocean News.
In a politically-laced, racially-charged memorandum to members of t...
DATE: Aug 31, 2007
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Some cruise stops are so brief, one comes away with only a fleeting glimpse of a port. Regent's Seven Seas Mariner docked in Juneau, the Alaskan capital, at 7.30 a.m. and reboarding was scheduled for 1.30 p.m. Not much time.
Docked is actually the wr...
DATE: Aug 31, 2007
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August 27, 2007
WHITHER shall the Fates lead? Forgive me for re-phrasing the island's motto but with the current political situation and the potential for disaster looming the question has to be asked - where are we heading?
Leaving aside education, ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2007
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An opposition Senator called on Government to reveal the programming schedule and content for its new TV service due to be launched within a few days.
Despite The Royal Gazette consistently asking questions on the nature of the content, programme sch...
DATE: Aug 28, 2007
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Some weeks ago I mentioned in this column that we had a few new chess players at the club. This week I will tell you about one of them.
He is Joel Bamogo (pictured). Joel entered the Bermuda Championship Seven Round Tournament that started on July 3 ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2007
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The Great Man
(Doubleday. 320 pages)
by Kate Christensen
The great man at the center, and in the title, of Kate Christensen's latest novel never appears in a single scene.
He is Oscar Feldman, a New York painter who embodies all the cliches of the ...
DATE: Aug 10, 2007
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Premier Ewart Brown congratulated Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on 45 of years of independence.
In a letter to the Prime Minister he wrote: ""Bermuda and Jamaica have a history of people transplanted from the other's shores.
"Many Jam...
DATE: Aug 08, 2007
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