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It is hard not to be ambivalent about the idea of decriminalisation of drugs, or even of relaxing conviction and sentencing guidelines.
On the one hand, it is surely obvious that the “war on drugs” is not working. Making drug addicts criminals has in...
DATE: Dec 01, 2011
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Editorials
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November 23, 2011
Dear Sir,
This afternoon, I made the infinitely regrettable mistake of taking a No.8 bus to the vicinity of a client's home, commencing from the new bus depot in town. It was a time of day when tourists and long-suffering local citi...
DATE: Nov 29, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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Happy Thanksgiving Bermuda! Bermuda doesn't really celebrate Thanksgiving the way our American and Canadian cousins do but I see and note that more and more people here are acknowledging the holidays.
This concept of giving thanks led me to consider ...
DATE: Nov 25, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
November 23, 2011
Dear Sir,
Please allow me to share my thoughts on the People’s Government.
These are some of them:
1) Reduce spending on the police service and public education
2) Have helped create an environment where International Business feel...
DATE: Nov 25, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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November 17, 2011
Dear Sir,
I recently asked what Bermuda’s future was likely to be if we do not address the enormous economic and psychological disparities between the black and white Communities. The leader of the new Opposition gave his opinion wh...
DATE: Nov 22, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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Opposition Leader Craig Cannonier delivered his Reply to the Throne Speech on Friday.
It was also his maiden speech, which is a first for Bermuda, and an unusual event in parliamentary democracies.
The speech shows that the One Bermuda Alliance pla...
DATE: Nov 21, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Editorials
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The following is the full text of the One Bermuda Alliance’s Reply to the Speech from the Throne, which was delivered in the House of Assembly yesterday by OBA Leader Craig Cannonier.
Mr Speaker, Honourable Members of the House of Assembly. It is a ...
DATE: Nov 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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November 17, 2011
Dear Sir,
The OBA is a blank slate. Their website and their pronouncements run to statements like “We will put Bermuda first”, or “We will lead by example”. These are the things any politician wakes up saying. They fill up air time ...
DATE: Nov 18, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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Lost opportunity
November 9, 2011
Dear Sir,
Please allow me to respond to the comments made in an interview published on November 9 headlined ‘What a shame, that in 2011 we don’t have truly freedom of speech, in Parliament’ in The Royal Gazette. Insi...
DATE: Nov 15, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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Prejudice is defined as a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience, but what we usually encounter is the dislike, hostility, or unjust behaviour formed on such a basis of prejudice. Racism is just one form of prejudice.
T...
DATE: Nov 15, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Philip Brownell
