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Hold off this legislation
September 29, 2007
Dear Sir:
The recently contracted study into black males will hopefully tell us why there is not a proportional representation of all demographic groups in our workforce. However, the proposed Workforce Eq...
DATE: Oct 02, 2007
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The author of this article is a senior Bermudian reinsurance executive. He is writing anonymously because of his concerns that expressing his views could result in punitive consequences towards his employer.
Since it acceded to office in 1998, the PL...
DATE: Sep 28, 2007
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Assuming you read at average speed, by the time you get to the bottom of this column, the war in Iraq will have cost the United States another $760,000. More than $4 million of US taxpayers' money ebbed away in the 18 minutes it took George W. Bush t...
DATE: Sep 27, 2007
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Won't be fooled or used
September 23, 2007
Dear Sir,
This letter is in reply not only to A Voter Who Will Not Be Fooled, whose letter appeared in your paper on Saturday, September 22, but also to his friends over at Bermudasucks.com. First of all I w...
DATE: Sep 27, 2007
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Be proactive, call TCD
September 15, 2007
Dear Sir,
In response to "A Solution to Problem of Dumped Cycles" published on August 31, 2007:
We recently had a situation where a bike had been abandoned in our neighbourhood. Making contact with the respon...
DATE: Sep 26, 2007
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An ageing population is a bit like an octopus-its tentacles can reach into some very unusual spaces. One of those spaces is brought to our attention in the August 3, 2007 edition of The Economist magazine, in a column with the headline, "In vitro ver...
DATE: Sep 25, 2007
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Premier Dr. Ewart Brown's speech in Washington last week was not the first time he had discussed the idea of "apprenticing" Bermudians to executives in international business, but he did put a little more flesh on this still a-borning policy. And whi...
DATE: Sep 24, 2007
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Few would deny Dame Lois
September 20, 2007
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Yesterday there was a surprise announcement that Bermuda Day would be renamed "National Heroes Day" and that the first National Hero would be Dame Lois Browne-Evans. You may recall that in July Cu...
DATE: Sep 22, 2007
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This is an abridged version of the speech delivered on Wednesday night by Premier Dr. Ewart Brown JP, MP at the Inter-American Economic Council's fifth annual congressional dinner with the Caribbean community in Washington, DC:
I am conscious of the ...
DATE: Sep 21, 2007
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Premier Dr. Ewart Brown's announcement on Tuesday that Government has commissioned Columbia University Professor Ronald Mincy to conduct a new study on black males in Bermuda should be welcomed.
There is still some mystery over why former Bermuda Col...
DATE: Sep 20, 2007
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