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By turns defiant and conciliatory, Premier Dr. Ewart Brown moved to stamp his leadership on the Progressive Labour Party last week as the party's conference opened.
Although it was fairly clear by the first of Dr. Brown's two speeches that there woul...
DATE: Oct 27, 2008
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This is the full text of Premier Dr. Ewart Brown's speech to delegates at the Progressive Labour Party conference delivered on Thursday night:
As I prepared myself for this Conference and particularly to address you this evening, I vividly recalled t...
DATE: Oct 25, 2008
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Honour our heroes correctly
October 10, 2008
Dear Sir,
I'm curious — why is the celebration commemorating Nationals Heroes' Day being held on Sunday October 12, 2008, the day before the public holiday? Perhaps because it clashes with another event an...
DATE: Oct 21, 2008
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Missing Government ads
October 14, 2008
Dear Sir,
I almost missed the deadline for payroll taxes as I have always relied on Government advertising in The Royal Gazette which reminds employers of the quarterly due date. If an employer missed the due d...
DATE: Oct 16, 2008
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Education Minister Randy Horton had some good news to impart last week when he announced the graduation results for the Island's two Government senior schools.
On the face of it, the results were a major improvement on past years.
For students who st...
DATE: Oct 15, 2008
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Cognitive Dissonance: the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.
It's been four years now since Barack Obama was catapulted onto the national and global stage with his remarkab...
DATE: Oct 15, 2008
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The controversy over the renaming of St. David's Primary School may appear to be a storm in a teacup, but it goes to the heart of issues about identity and community pride.
This newspaper has always been sceptical about the validity of renaming schoo...
DATE: Oct 10, 2008
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October 4, 2008 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edward Trenton Richards, Bermuda's first Premier.
Born to a family of teachers, in Berbice, British Guiana, young Edward also took up the family vocation, although he secretly longed fo...
DATE: Oct 10, 2008
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Butler's insulting reaction
October 07, 2008
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St. David's Primary — Where Learning Lights the Way. Passion is what I witnessed on this evening's news. Minister Butler gave an impassioned plea to the community at large to educate themselves o...
DATE: Oct 10, 2008
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What happened to courtesy
September 15, 2008
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you as a frustrated bike rider and car driver on the road. I admit I break the laws sometimes, but what frustrates me is that I can be pulled over at a bike parking on the road si...
DATE: Oct 07, 2008
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