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Wow! The lobster season comes to an end and the weather promptly puts paid to any fishing that might have been done. The onset of a late winter gale and the passages of some classic northern Atlantic depressions pretty much kept everybody home.
On a...
DATE: Apr 07, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”
Wilkins Micawber a fictional character from Charles Dic...
DATE: Apr 02, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
This should ring alarm bells: “There was no business. It's simple,” Cracker Box owner David Rowntree said. “We could not cover the costs. The economy and tourism in St George's are dead!”
Cracker Box in St George's is closing after more than three d...
DATE: Mar 31, 2012
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Editorials
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Launching a bond offering. The last time the Bermuda government borrowed money on a long-term repayment plan (this did not include the revolving cash overdrafts), the Bermuda public knew little of the details even after the bond deal was announced. I...
DATE: Mar 10, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
February 25, 2012
Dear Sir,
A recent documentary film entitled “West Indies Calling” has recently been uploaded to the internet at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGwxJloI70. The film is of interest as it contains a shot of a Bermudian woman, apparen...
DATE: Mar 06, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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The annual budget of the current Bermuda Government was presented yesterday, after this article went to press. I will have commentary on its content next week.
According to biztaxlaw.com, a basic budget is defined as: “a financial document used to p...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
At the risk of bringing down the vengeance of Mother Nature; to be honest, this winter has not been particularly difficult and there have been more fishable days than we might usually expect at this time of the year. March is now in sight and the fis...
DATE: Feb 18, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
January 21, 2012
Dear Sir,
I am a Bermudian who has lived in the United States for the past 28 years. I was one of the first people to bring in these breeds, rottweilers, pitbulls and American Bulldogs back in the 1970s. What happened in Bermuda happ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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January 21, 2012
Dear Sir,
As a Bermudian living in Boston surrounded by millions of people from all walks of life, I would like to comment on the recent article you published concerning the lack of protection of the rights of Gays and Lesbians in Be...
DATE: Jan 24, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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No half-measures
January 17, 2011
Dear Sir,
The Board of Amnesty International Bermuda would like to voice its concerns about the comments made by Ms Shade Subair, the outgoing Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission, which appeared in the Saturda...
DATE: Jan 23, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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