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In the week that the murder of another young Bermudian male has cast a pall of despair over the country, it is both uplifting and comforting that a handful of the very same demographic can elicit a smile and the encouragement of hope for our future.
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DATE: Feb 01, 2017
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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
The new year has begun with somewhat of an extension of the now legendary ‘Trump rally’ which ensued immediately after the US election in early November. Global equities have generally been well bid as the so-called ‘reflation’ trade marches on. Mark...
DATE: Jan 17, 2017
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
Now that the dust has settled on events in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles and reality has hit home that Bermuda is a bona fide Division Four nation from a world cricket perspective, eyes turn instinctively to where to next for our nati...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016
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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
To get a true sense of what Flora Duffy accomplished, and its impact on Bermuda, when she crushed a world-class field to win the World Triathlon Championships Grand Final in Cozumel, Mexico, you need to go no farther than the comments from a watching...
DATE: Sep 21, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Editorials
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AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
The story that appeared in the sports pages of this newspaper on Thursday informing of the exit of Bermuda from the Concacaf Under-15 Girls Championship in Orlando, Florida, was accompanied by an inappropriate headline, for which we are deeply sorry....
DATE: Aug 19, 2016
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Editorials
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Bermuda wasn’t your father’s Oldsmobile. In Stephen Birnbaum’s expert opinion, by the late 1980s the island’s tourism product was actually something closer akin to your great-grandfather’s Model T Ford.
He might have been parodying a popular advert...
DATE: Aug 12, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Editorials
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AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
Dear Sir,
The recent fiasco surrounding the infamous Royal Gazette sports story of Somerset Cup Match captain Jordan DeSilva by sportswriter Colin Thompson was irresponsible and somewhat disrespectful to his family. Some may even say the article had ...
DATE: Jul 27, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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It has been an exhilarating few weeks for Bermuda’s rising rugby union stars. A squad of talented young men went to Miami for the Rugby Americas North Under-19 Championship, while some of our inspiring young women have been attending a camp at Life U...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Editorials
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AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
As Somerset Trojans prepared to bow out of the Caribbean Club Championship in Haiti in late February, coach Kieshon Smith reopened a very stale can of worms. Not unimportant, mind, but stale all the same, for the lack of attention given to his concer...
DATE: Apr 04, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Editorials
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AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
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DATE: Mar 28, 2016
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