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Here we are this week, welcoming the America’s Cup to Bermuda and looking forward to the sporting excitement that will climax in 2017.
Bermuda, the Dot in the Ocean*, is drawing intense scrutiny from around the world as the new host of this prestigio...
DATE: Dec 06, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Today, December 5, marks the first anniversary of the death of Nelson Mandela, a global icon who has left a legacy for us all.
We pause to honour him at a time when we have just secured the America’s Cup, an unprecedented opportunity that offers a pl...
DATE: Dec 05, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Glenn Fubler
By Julia Pitt
Last weekend was a bit different. I spent most of it attending a seminar on race walking of all things. Yes, that track & field event with the swishy hips and rather awkward gait that never gets much coverage on television.
It was, howe...
DATE: Dec 03, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
By Bob Settje
Despite the fact the United States is Bermuda’s closest neighbour and primary economic partner, nearly 75 per cent of the Island’s university-bound high school and Bermuda College students choose to attend colleges and universities some...
DATE: Dec 02, 2014
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November 28, 2014
Dear Sir,
As a result of running away from home at the age of 15, I found myself being sent abroad to Utah, to a vocational boarding school.
Although it’s called a boarding school, it can be likened to that of a juvenile detention c...
DATE: Dec 02, 2014
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Letters to the Editor
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24 November 2014
Dear Sir,
I wish to commend Ira Philip on his very thorough and in-depth Obituary for AC “Artie” Black, which deservedly occupied a full page in The Royal Gazette (Saturday, November 22, 2014).
The extent of Mr Black’s interests, in...
DATE: Dec 01, 2014
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Letters to the Editor
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Scammers and those being scammed, part two
“At the bottom of Multi-Level Marketing — a scummy business at best — lurks Global Prosperity. The slimy-est of the slimy MLM programmes, none is more of a scam, or has such a disreputable background, as Gl...
DATE: Nov 29, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
The clubs have spoken and have clearly backed Lloyd Fray to be president of the Bermuda Cricket Board for another term. So if Fray is not the problem, then who is or what is?
This is what we need to get to the bottom of so that, in two years’ time, w...
DATE: Nov 28, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
RG: In our opinion
It would be a fatuous understatement to suggest Bermuda’s secondary public education system deserves a failing grade. The grim reality is we have offered up generations of Bermuda students as human sacrifices to the false gods of ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2014
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Editorials
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We’re angry, upset and frustrated!
Once again a piece of Bermuda’s Black history is being rendered virtually unrecognisable under plans submitted by Linberg & Simmons and Fidelity Real Estate Company entitled “Moonray Manor Restoration/Redevelopment...
DATE: Nov 26, 2014
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Other
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