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July the 4th is two days away. Domestic citizens of the United States, from the flat vast farmlands to the high Sierras, and the sophisticated East Coast, look forward to celebrating another independence day in a long line of celebrations.
American c...
DATE: Jul 02, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Wow! It's like instant summer.
Gone is all the overcast and breeze. It is now the hot, humid and sunshiny summers that we refer to as Bermudaful days. Plenty of good reasons to either stay in the air conditioning or to head offshore in search of som...
DATE: Jul 02, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
June 23, 2011
Dear Sir,
With regard to the article in The Royal Gazette on Wednesday, June 22nd regarding the closure of Sunshine League due to lack of funds to keep operating, I have to admit that found it quite surprising that 18 people are being l...
DATE: Jun 30, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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The Royal Gazette carried two lead stories on successive days featuring the outgoing general managers of the Fairmont hotels in Bermuda.
The timing was more by accident than by design, but given what Norman Mastalir, Fairmont's Bermuda head and the ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2011
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Editorials
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The announcement that the Sunshine League plans to close its 24-hour residential care facility is the most tangible sign yet of how the recession is hurting people.
No one would dispute that the Sunshine League has provided a critically important se...
DATE: Jun 23, 2011
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Editorials
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Wow! Talk about timing! Just in advance of last weekend's tournaments. Certainly things could not have been better for both events even though their respective objectives were somewhat different. Add to that the fact that the weather was incredibly c...
DATE: Jun 18, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
The decision by then Premier Ewart Brown to provide refuge to four Guantánamo detainees in Bermuda in June 2009 continues to vex residents some two years after the fact. We now know that the American and British governments are involved in discussion...
DATE: Jun 15, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Walton Brown
Parents can’t even lock their children into their rooms these days as punishment; they are only giving them more time to play games in peace.
In fact, instead of fighting digital games, you should be learning how to play them with your children, say...
DATE: Jun 08, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
I had no bites to my suggestion that Bermudians create an archive similar to the BBC's Domesday project, which attempts to capture a snapshot of life as it is today.
However one of the developers of the Geograph Britain and Ireland site (www.geograph...
DATE: Jun 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
MP Walter Lister's recent comment that a Bermudian could do the Governor's job as well as Sir Richard Gozney, and for less, has sparked debate in the community. To some degree, Mr Lister is right. There are Bermudians who are quite capable of doing t...
DATE: May 31, 2011
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Editorials
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