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We are heading into the budget period and I am certain we will hear about a lot of new initiatives from the Government, but I would like to take this opportunity to state what I hope to see.
The Progressive Labour Party can dismiss the Opposition’s ...
DATE: Feb 08, 2020
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Dwayne Robinson
This column will not render a verdict on whether the White House decision last week to suspend immigration from Nigeria, the world’s seventh most populous nation, and five other countries was mainly an expression of bigotry from an administration led...
DATE: Feb 06, 2020
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Justin Fox
If we in Bermuda have a date with destiny, then it does not look too promising now. But it does not have to be that way! There are many external forces that we can do nothing about; however, many of our most festering wounds such as economic and immi...
DATE: Feb 05, 2020
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Sir John Swan
So far the sugar tax is nothing more than a tax grab by the Progressive Labour Party.
In Parliament on Friday, I asked questions of the finance minister, Curtis Dickinson, in regards to the amount raised since the inception of sugar tax on October 1,...
DATE: Feb 04, 2020
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Michael Dunkley
The Moneywise Pretend Portfolio yearlong series has been updated to reflect stock and bond prices at original issue and as at end of January.
The portfolio is not yet complete as each month in the year-long programme,
but please take the time to see...
DATE: Feb 01, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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Martha Harris Myron
It’s most poignant that Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter. During his prodigious basketball career, that flying vehicle became a symbol of his persistent greatness and the urgency he always felt.
He didn’t have much time for traffic or any other limit...
DATE: Jan 28, 2020
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Newspapers often get criticised for reporting only the “bad news”, but the announcement last week that there were no murders recorded in 2019 is good news indeed and should, with a caveat, be celebrated.
The caveat, of course, is that Bermuda’s expe...
DATE: Jan 28, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” — Margaret Thatcher
I find it amusing and interesting, yet not surpris...
DATE: Jan 24, 2020
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Christopher Famous
The term “Two Bermudas” has been bandied about over the years to the point of overuse. That is because it has come to mean all things to all people whenever the mood strikes — politics, education, immigration, religion, same-sex marriage, healthcare,...
DATE: Jan 24, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
Harry S. Truman, the US president between 1945 and 1953, once said: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
Too often we are focused on who is solving a problem and who gets the credit.
The global climate crisi...
DATE: Jan 23, 2020
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