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SEVEN years ago, Bermuda was the recipient of a remarkable award when the town and the forts of St. George’s Parish were designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Like many insular societies, we perhaps think we are a chosen people and that such an...
DATE: May 11, 2007
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RECENTLY on the BBC I heard an interesting debate centred around the ongoing attempt by international media magnate Rupert Murdoch to wrest control of the Dow Jones Company which, among other things, publishes the respected and highly influential fin...
DATE: May 11, 2007
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THE Jamaican Association will host its first annual Mother’s Day cruise tomorrow night, according to JA president Ralston Wright , writes Walter Brown.“Mother’s Day is every day but we wanted to do something extra special for them this year and we d...
DATE: May 10, 2007
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The Auditor General wants his office to become a legislatively independent entity, and he cites the row over office space last year as Exhibit A in the case for why it is necessary.
The call for greater independence comes in one section the Auditor G...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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‘Son of the Soil’ Dr. Pauulu Kamarakafego (Roosevelt Brown) will be memorialised on Parliament Hill today in a tree planting ceremony.
The late Dr.. Kamarakafego served in Parliament as a PLP MP from 1968-1972 but spent most of his life in developing...
DATE: May 04, 2007
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Cabinet Minister Randy Horton flies back today to face controversy surrounding his branch’s decision to dump him as Progressive Labour Party candidate which one party source has described as a “stitch up”.
It was claimed last night that the “unpreced...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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Governor Sir John Vereker is on a panel probing the World Bank department which investigates fraud.
The review team is reporting to under-fire World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, who is at the centre of a separate probe into claims he unfairly hande...
DATE: Apr 30, 2007
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THE All Bermuda Congress (ABC) is the only means for democratic change to take place on the island as neither the United Bermuda Party nor the Progressive Labour Party is interested in “giving the power to the people”, the organiser of the fledgling ...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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“And We Didn’t Know Who He Was!” Those words from a well-known Negro spiritual kept coursing through my mind as I sat listening to the endless tributes from all over the world celebrating the life of Dr. Pauulu Roosevelt Oris Nelson Brown Kamarakafe...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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An election is looming. When it comes, each main party will no doubt promise to sustain economic growth, reform education, build houses, tackle crime and economically empower the disadvantaged.
A spat caused by inflammatory racial rhetoric might grab...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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