1426 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "Opinion"
In 1995, while campaigning for a “yes” vote in the Independence referendum, I began receiving telephone calls from an anonymous, raspy-voiced man, who was expressing his opposition to my efforts. This continued for about four months. After the refere...
DATE: Jun 23, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Walton Brown
June 8, 2011
Dear Sir,
I can't help but notice that the issue of Independence is being dusted off again by various politicians and others. Of course, if we had put the issue to a Referendum (like a majority of the public was calling for) the last tim...
DATE: Jun 16, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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June 8, 2011
Dear Sir,
Hands up everyone who thinks racism has disappeared in the United States in the 235 years since America declared its independence (or “decolonialised”, if you want) from Britain in 1776. Now hands up everyone who thinks the sp...
DATE: Jun 16, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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Whenever a politician raises the notion of national Independence for Bermuda there is a predictable flow of negative commentary. Even though Independence is the natural political framework for countries and the democracy we all claim to hold so dearl...
DATE: Jun 08, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Walton Brown
May 31, 2011
Dear Sir,
For me, a reliable indicator of an approaching general election is when the PLP raises the issue of Independence for Bermuda, which Marc Bean and Walter Lister apparently did in a recent Motion to Adjourn in our House of Assemb...
DATE: Jun 07, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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May 31, 2011
Dear Sir,
I applaud the “Report from the House” written by the RG's Sam Strangeways and Tim Smith which was printed on May 30, 2011. In that report, new MP Marc Bean took up the topic of Independence during the Motion to Adjourn and he s...
DATE: Jun 07, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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Dear Sir,
While I am not totally opposed to the idea of an Independent Bermuda, I am totally against it under our current conditions and government.
How can Mr Bean and Mr Lister think we'd be able to quash racial tensions by being Independent? I rea...
DATE: Jun 06, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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May 29, 2011
Dear Sir,
I would like to answer the question voiced by Walter Lister in the Report from the House in Monday's Royal Gazette. He asks “What does Britain do for you”?
The answers are numerous. But first and foremost it connects us with t...
DATE: Jun 06, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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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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May 22, 2011
Dear Sir,
I have now completed far more important things in life than an earlier answering of the wayward, rambling, incoherent rants of Bob Stewart and the thinly disguised adverse sophistry of your Friday, May 13, 2011 editorial on pri...
DATE: May 27, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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