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As students return to classes, it's interesting to note that the recent stream of GCSE results show that Bermuda's students in the private and public school systems can compete with their peers in the rest of the world.
It has been difficult to make ...
DATE: Sep 15, 2004
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One of the things about President Bush, and about America, that seems to bother Europeans most is their unabashed religiosity.
Europeans feel that references to God should be reserved for church occasions, not scattered through the purely laical busi...
DATE: Aug 30, 2004
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August 5, 2004
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you because to be honest I am at my wits end. I am a student who has always managed to maintain an excellent grade point average and keeping it that way is no small feat. Yet now I find myself in a dilemma. I ...
DATE: Aug 21, 2004
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If it isn't broke...
August 3 2004
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This is in response to Mr. Calvin Smith's letter dated July 27, 2004 in which he responds to my original letter which objected to the PLP's lack of accountability, and outlined the risks of Independence fo...
DATE: Aug 10, 2004
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Newspaper stories are often critical. That shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, since the media in general has a responsibility to be a public watchdog.
Still, it's not unusual for the media to be criticised for being “too negative”. It is not a...
DATE: Aug 09, 2004
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July 19, 2004
Dear Sir,
As the first anniversary of my daughter's death fast approaches, please afford me the opportunity to express to your readers the depth of pain and anguish that I have suffered as a result of her premature passing.
On the morni...
DATE: Aug 06, 2004
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Cup Match is over for another year, and has thankfully passed without a violent incident. After outbursts of violence at White Hill Field and at Wellington Oval in the last 12 months, there is reason to be happy that this holiday passed without a maj...
DATE: Aug 03, 2004
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Tomorrow marks the playing of Cup Match, Bermuda's annual two-day holiday when the Island's best cricketers battle for bragging rights between St. George's and Somerset.
But the holiday means much more than that.
It was begun by rival Masonic lodges ...
DATE: Jul 28, 2004
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It's the oldest trick in the book.
If you don't like what you're hearing, shoot the messenger.
That is what occurred in the House of Assembly on Friday when Government MPs criticised the media for the round of bad news it has been getting lately.
The...
DATE: Jul 27, 2004
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It is a very interesting exercise to examine trends in population growth for the period 1960 to 2000 as measured at each Census Date.
The data show some revealing trends, some of which are widely known and others that are relatively unknown. Three tr...
DATE: Jul 14, 2004
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