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February 17, 2012
Dear Sir,
By the time I had finished reading the letter from Sheelagh Cooper in today’s Royal Gazette, referring to Noet Barnett’s sentence, I was reduced to tears. What a wonderful, compassionate letter explaining to the Judge, th...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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There’s a good deal of political point-scoring going on around Parliamentary salary cuts, and it is important to remember first principles in this.
First, it is welcome news that the Progressive Labour Party Government has finally embraced the idea ...
DATE: Feb 14, 2012
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Editorials
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February 2, 2012
Dear Sir,
What a positive move for our Education Department to allow the introduction of a rugby league in the Middle School system, thanks to the Family Centre and the Bermuda Rugby Football Union. This has great potential to go a l...
DATE: Feb 07, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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January 21, 2012
Dear Sir,
I am a Bermudian who has lived in the United States for the past 28 years. I was one of the first people to bring in these breeds, rottweilers, pitbulls and American Bulldogs back in the 1970s. What happened in Bermuda happ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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One of the core elements of a democracy is the right to vote the right of the people to freely decide which politicians and which parties have earned their support and deserve their vote.
A dark chapter in Bermuda’s quest for a more democratic socie...
DATE: Jan 25, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Walton Brown
January 7, 2012
Dear Sir,
Education, or the lack of it, has been identified as the primary reason why Bermudians are not making it within the more academic areas of business.
Today’s story about principals within primary schools ran shivers down my ...
DATE: Jan 23, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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The Bermuda National Pension Scheme (the Plan), while brilliant in conception and as currently in force, is not meeting the needs of older workers in our public workforce during this unprecedented decline in economic job activity in Bermuda.
Here’s...
DATE: Jan 21, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
It’s time to move forward and move on family. We have to figure out what’s going wrong in Bermuda and whatever it is we need to do to grow our economy, improve the standard of education of our people, develop our workforce, decrease crime, stop murde...
DATE: Jan 20, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
Dr Joseph Froncioni has long been the leading advocate for making Bermuda’s roads safer.
As a surgeon and later as chairman of the Road Safety Council, he saw too many examples of lives being lost or irreparably injured not to do something about it....
DATE: Jan 19, 2012
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Editorials
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The issue of driver distractions is attracting considerable attention from road safety advocates and legislators alike. Although driver distractions have always been present, the increasing availability and use of portable and pre-installed electroni...
DATE: Jan 19, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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