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No wonder our beleaguered seniors are confused about FutureCare and the status of health insurance. So are the rest of us. The good news is that common sense is beginning to surface in the knowledge that this scheme is unsustainable.
The bad news is ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2009
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F or those who are unable or unwilling to call it quits, when it comes to smoking, this column might not be in harmony with your stance on this highly sensitive issue.
Around the world the noose is tightening for those who oppose efforts to create a ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2009
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Obfuscation or deception?
October 1 2009
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Re: Bermuda Employers' Council – No Discrimination
Your article of September 30, 2009 concerning the position of the Bermuda Employers' Council with respect to discrimination in employment of blacks ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2009
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The recent Employment Survey and the recent stories in The Royal Gazette on income disparities between blacks and whites in Bermuda points up the issue that remains at the heart of the Island's racial divide.
That the income gap remains wide between ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2009
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I hear many people talking about the UBP "Break up". I don't believe it has been a break up but dissolution. A "break up" implies that there were irreconcilable differences between various groups within the party. Dissolution suggests that whereas th...
DATE: Oct 01, 2009
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Gazette did its job
September 24, 2009
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The PLP works very hard to position The Royal Gazette as being the media wing of the UBP. Perversely, the UBP used to mete out the same disdain. This allows the parties to pretend that any critical re...
DATE: Oct 01, 2009
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Throughout 2008 the Bermuda Employers Council commissioned and developed a statistical-based study of employment trends in Bermuda, complete with analysis and comment; the first of its kind in Bermuda. The data and comment was shared widely with Gove...
DATE: Sep 30, 2009
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"…We have to want it…Bermudians have to want equality." The late Julian Hall, The Big Conversation Documentary
I guess that you could call the following a cautionary tale. Cautionary, because it illustrates how difficult it has been to actually achie...
DATE: Sep 30, 2009
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The late David Critchley, a senior civil servant for many years, once compared the Department of Education to the Kremlin.
A more apt comparison these days might be with the Cretan Labyrinth from Greek mythology. In the middle of the Labyrinth reside...
DATE: Sep 30, 2009
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In response to Mark Byrne's resigning as chairman of the Board of Education I'm not surprised. Mr. Byrne stated that there is a lack of political will to make the radical changes that are necessary to improve student outcome. These sentiments have be...
DATE: Sep 28, 2009
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