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Tax news specific to Bermudian residents with United States passports, i.e. dual citizens of the US/other countries and US citizens living abroad, who for various reasons such as ignorance of US tax law, or misunderstanding of their personal tax situ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Raising standards
December 1, 2011
Dear Sir,
Some of Brownlow Adderley’s goals may be laudable (letter printed December 1) but the solution presented of eliminating private schools is flawed. If Government schools were of the same achievement level a...
DATE: Dec 08, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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Stop and search
December 2, 2011
Dear Sir,
The main issue around the Stop and Search legislation is that Section 315F of the Criminal Code (introduced in 2005) contains a clause that enables police to Stop & Search with no probably cause. This wordin...
DATE: Dec 08, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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Mandela the uniter
December 1, 2011
Dear Sir,
I watched the film “Invictus” last night despite a unanimous vote to disband the Springboks rugby team, Nelson Mandela persuades his party that keeping it will help unite his racially and economically div...
DATE: Dec 08, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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The holidays bring on a heightened sense of giving and receiving of gifts to mark a part of Christmas traditions celebrated across the world.
For many families with children and adolescents the focus is often on that special toy or popular electroni...
DATE: Dec 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Darnell Wynn
One way of looking at general elections is to imagine that voters are bus passengers waiting for the right bus to come along in order to reach their desired destination.
Most of us have heard of people catching the wrong bus, through not checking the...
DATE: Dec 06, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
November 26, 2011
Dear Sir,
Elections are only a government promise away. It is a moment of gloom for all of us when we must distinguish between gradations of shoddy and decide the least shoddy. Elections in Bermuda are a time when pride-in-country g...
DATE: Dec 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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There was good news in the House of Assembly on Friday when Economy Minister Patrice Minors announced that one of the worst decisions made in the last ten years was being “relaxed”.
This was the “return to sender” rule for minor address mistakes. De...
DATE: Dec 05, 2011
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Editorials
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The composite case examples are based on two Bermuda residents who do not have US citizenship, US tax liabilities associated with foreign pensions, exempt company employers or other multinational, multi jurisdictional issues that require complex plan...
DATE: Dec 03, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
November 24, 2011
Dear Sir,
Allow me to discuss the future of a Bermuda that we all speak about but don’t travel the lip service road to get there. I’m talking about the last bastion of the old ways that divided us and continues to be a thorn in all ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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