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I know what I signed
September 23, 2005
Dear Sir,
It has taken me a few days to write this letter to you. I have experienced an entire range of emotions this week; anger, outrage, disappointment, and finally sadness.
I refer to the comment you made w...
DATE: Sep 24, 2005
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Look at the costs
September 23, 2005
Dear Sir,
Missing from the media coverage surrounding the report of the Bermuda Independence Commission has been a critical examination of the potential benefits and costs of independence. Instead the coverage has...
DATE: Sep 24, 2005
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September 17, 2005
Dear Sir,
Further to Sarah Titterton's Friday article on the use of referendums to decide major sovereign issues, perhaps we can conclude that the members of the Bermuda Independence Commission either do not know how to use that mo...
DATE: Sep 23, 2005
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Amid the bias and the editorialising that suffused the final report of the much-maligned Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC) there was one recommendation that, of itself, justified that body's existence.
The report explicitly acknowledged the need ...
DATE: Sep 22, 2005
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As ?Limey in Bermuda? Phillip Wells points out, the Bermuda Independence Commission?s report wasn?t all bad.
It spent some time dealing with the issue of race, as did the United Nations Decolonisation Committee in its report on its visits to Bermuda....
DATE: Sep 22, 2005
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The Bamboozle, Indoctrinate and Condition Report, I mean the Bermuda Independence Commission Report, is in, all 600 pages of it. And what's the conclusion? Let me summarise: "We misled you because we had to."
The unwelcome six-month intrusion by "not...
DATE: Sep 22, 2005
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It has been ten years since I have been out of office as Premier of Bermuda. The Progressive Labour Party, coming to power seven years ago as a new and untested Government gave me cause to be restrained in my comments. I waited because I wanted to gi...
DATE: Sep 21, 2005
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Rules are rules
September 12, 2005
Dear Sir,
I am responding to the letter written by Robert Henderson referring to the Airport security guard who refused to allow tourists to snap a photo before getting on their plane. I have a relative who is an Ai...
DATE: Sep 20, 2005
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The test for the Independence Commission was always going to be whether it would be able to fairly and fearlessly present both sides of the Independence issue without appearing to be biased one way or the other.
Given the near impossibility of anyone...
DATE: Sep 19, 2005
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Halt the ?foreign? gardens
September 14, 2005
Dear Sir,
Two years after Hurricane Fabian, I congratulate the Management and Staff of the Botanical Gardens in Paget for the way in which they have turned the devastation of the hurricane into an opportu...
DATE: Sep 16, 2005
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