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Bermuda faces a serious performance challenge in the years ahead; a challenge driven by the failure to solve public problems that have been long known to us.
We have made similar statements over the past year mostly by drawing attention to the distur...
DATE: Jan 29, 2009
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Give emergency services GPS
January 22, 2009
Dear Sir,
Sam Strangeways' story "Ambulance driver tells inquest: 'I did my best'" touched me. Surely when we see our loved ones needing medical help urgently we expect those (ie 911 and EMT) who can provi...
DATE: Jan 28, 2009
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Two stories in Saturday's newspaper show that the supposedly neutral Civil Service is under threat.
One concerns the surprise move of the Premier's secretary – while she was on holiday – to another job in the Cabinet Office. The other concerns propos...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009
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A black Premier has called upon us to think about Independence. At the moment the majority of black people are not very interested in Independence.
Nevertheless that should not prevent us from thinking about nation-building. Certainly those who are d...
DATE: Jan 24, 2009
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Barack Obama staged his arrival in Washington to evoke Abraham Lincoln's, but the historical echo is faint. Lincoln's famous train ride to his 1861 inauguration traversed a landscape of bitterness and strife. He had to speed through Baltimore "like a...
DATE: Jan 23, 2009
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For the first time in a long time, the economy is the major area of concern for Bermuda residents, overtaking hardy perennials like crime, housing and education.
That's not surprising, and in a perverse way, it's good news, because it shows that the ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2009
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Story was too generous
January 16, 2009
Dear Sir,
I appreciate your article (Wednesday, January 14) about the Imagine Bermuda forum, especially your recognition of the work of Bermuda's civil rights activists of the 1950s, one of whom was my father, ...
DATE: Jan 17, 2009
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A card of thanks
January 2, 2009
Dear Sir,
Please allow me in your valuable editorial on behalf of Prospect Primary School and Prospect Pre School to thank the various establishments who sponsored both schools for their Christmas Fundraisers and both...
DATE: Jan 12, 2009
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Tech education needed– December 16, 2008
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Re: Bring back Tech (December 5, 2008)
Times have changed; apprenticeships are no longer the arduous five-year skill of hand and machining that they used to be. Technicians are no longer expected to...
DATE: Jan 10, 2009
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In defence of ZBM
January 7, 2009
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I am unaccustomed to responding to anonymous letters as they could be from gutless or devious people. The letter from "Mr. Anonymous" addresses the fact that ZBM-TV started the NFL telecast 22 minutes late ...
DATE: Jan 09, 2009
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