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On behalf of myself, my family, my staff, my business, and on behalf of all my fellow Bermudians, I want to give thanks to the Minister of Economic Development, Grant Gibbons, and his team for all the initiative they demonstrated and all the hard wor...
DATE: Dec 19, 2014
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Since I have been elected to the Bermuda Cricket Board as a club representative I have been doing nothing but talking to friends in other countries, trying to find ideas on how we can improve our cricket.
It is of no secret that our cricket needs an...
DATE: Dec 19, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
There is one irrefutable truth in education: parental involvement in schools promotes student success and achievement. Most of us grew up believing that we could do anything or become anything we wanted with dedication and hard work.
Whether we will...
DATE: Dec 18, 2014
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Visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads? Sadly not.
We may forget that while we are busy being concerned about our plans for the holidays, many of our students and young folk are in the throes of making important plans and decisions about thei...
DATE: Dec 17, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
Dear Sir,
On December 5, the first anniversary of the death of Nelson Mandela was commemorated locally and abroad.
I wish to draw attention to the birth of what I will call Mandela’s defining moment of transformation: the launch of the military “Spe...
DATE: Dec 17, 2014
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Letters to the Editor
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Former Bermuda Premier Sir John Swan recently retired from the board of directors of The Standard Club, an international mutual insurance association owned by its shipowner members, after 37 years of service. The club insures shipowners, operators an...
DATE: Dec 16, 2014
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You don’t need cartoonist Peter Woolcock’s highly developed sense of the absurd to recognise the comic possibilities — and improbabilities — of Bermudian politics.
The House of Assembly has, of course, long been the setting for low farce as well as h...
DATE: Dec 12, 2014
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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
I have to start this with a confession. I haven’t bought my kids salad spinners for Christmas. I have actually bought them American Girl dolls. I did my best to pretend they didn’t exist (the dolls, not my kids …) but Chloe is in P2. Six-year-olds ta...
DATE: Dec 12, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
The editorial in The Royal Gazette of November 27th on the monumental incompetence of the Department of Education was spot on and was long overdue. Whilst Government incompetence is legendary (think of the financial fiasco at Port Royal Golf Course) ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2014
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“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
There are situations in which I can find myself turning to the dictionary despite knowing the meaning of a word. I do it because the dictionary is informative, rather than interpre...
DATE: Dec 08, 2014
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