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Kudos to our young men
December 9, 2011
Dear Sir,
Once again I have goose bumps of joy to see that there are successful, achieving, athletically and artistically young men in The Royal Gazette newspaper on Thursday, December 8, 2011 who have chosen n...
DATE: Dec 14, 2011
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What’s more important?
December 9, 2011
Dear Sir,
When reading the Tuesday December 6 Royal Gazette report on the new blazer policy at Dellwood, I couldn’t help but ask: Why is the school trying to change something that doesn’t need changing? As a s...
DATE: Dec 14, 2011
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“Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.”
- William E Simon (former secretary of Treasury in the US)
A country...
DATE: Dec 13, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
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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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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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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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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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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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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