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I must say I really enjoyed reading a well written, very interesting article by Alvin Williams published in the Mid-Ocean News of June 26th 2009. The article was headlined "Premier's actions have struck a blow for liberty". Actually the article was s...
DATE: Jul 03, 2009
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This year's Independence Day Celebration will be an extra special one for many reasons. Most importantly, it comes on the 400th anniversary of the founding of Bermuda — a once-in-a- lifetime experience.
For those of us fortunate enough to celebrate t...
DATE: Jul 03, 2009
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A lack of judgment
June 15, 2009
Dear Sir,
Please allow me the opportunity of critically commenting on the Premier's decision to allow Uighur detainees from Guantánamo Bay into Bermuda. The internationalist in me wants to applaud this decision as a m...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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Subsidise visitors
June 4, 2009
Dear Sir,
There is much chatter about the decision on whether gambling should be allowed on docked cruise ships after hours. Most of this chatter revolves around gambling being a cure-all to our tourism problems.
It is...
DATE: Jun 29, 2009
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Race reaction
June 25, 2009
Dear Sir,
I have several very simple questions. Can you or your readers help?
Is Bermuda a racially integrated society or are we still a racially divided society? Why do some people become so furious when I point this out ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2009
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Rev. Sharpton's mistakes
June 23, 2009
Dear Sir,
Rev. Al Sharpton made two incorrect statements during his recent visit. He praised the actions of this Government. It was not an action by the Government but the actions of one would-be dictator, and S...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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July 4 boycott
June 20, 2009
Dear Sir,
Has anyone considered boycotting the 4th of July festival that the US puts on in Bermuda each year?
I, particularly, don't feel like celebrating with fireworks and I certainly don't want to see Ewart there celeb...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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Dr. Brown is stuck in the past
June 22, 2009
Dear Sir,
How pathetic that our so 'Honourable' Premier Brown felt the need for a phalanx of policemen to surround him on his departure from the House of Assembly last Friday. Clearly he wasn't "feeling th...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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They have a home
June 12, 2009
Dear Sir,
The high-handed, grandstanding arrogance of the Premier in his recent and seemingly unilateral decision to accord some sort of refugee status in Bermuda to the four ex-Guantanamo inmates is astonishing, even t...
DATE: Jun 19, 2009
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Insulted
June 16, 2009
Dear Sir,
I think we've got hold of the wrong end of the stick here. This Guantánamo thing isn't about terrorists, or humanitarian gestures. I don't know if the Guantánamo four are terrorists or not.
Nor d...
DATE: Jun 19, 2009
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