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Fingers crossed, the weather will hold for the 53rd Royal Gazette Wahoo Tournament, one of the island’s oldest and best attended angling tournaments.
One of the few public tournaments to still feature line classes and to put an emphasis on the light...
DATE: Sep 14, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
A human and natural tragedy of catastrophic proportions. Are there lessons for Bermuda?
According to recent Dorian hurricane media reports, the Bahamas islands most heavily affected areas are lowlands, rising 15 to 20 feet above sea level in some res...
DATE: Sep 14, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
As much as we like to discuss that lovely bottle of brunello that we had a couple of weeks ago, the cold hard facts are that most of the time most of us are happy to find an enjoyable wine for under $20.
So, how are prices determined? In Bermuda, for...
DATE: Sep 13, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Michael Robinson
Friday the 13th feels like a good day for a glass of wine at my desk, but I suppose 9am is a fraction early. I once shared an overnight train from Pretoria to Cape Town with a crazy older lady who started doing shots of vodka at breakfast.
She kept s...
DATE: Sep 13, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Government officials, making more moves this week, are guaranteed to cause some further head scratching. First, the European Central Bank started yet another wave of monetary easing yesterday; and next week, the Fed is likely to cut interest rates by...
DATE: Sep 13, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
Unfortunately, there has always been a certain element in Bermuda that has attempted to tell us constantly that we are not a part of the Caribbean, either geographically or culturally, and that we should have nothing to do with “those people”.
Many h...
DATE: Sep 13, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
On our wedding anniversary this summer, Bill and I began a tradition of planting a tree on our island in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota.
In August you will always find us there, living among the towering pines of our enchanted forest, ove...
DATE: Sep 12, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
Following on from my recent article on the perils of plastic, I think it’s only fitting that I now address the other end of the telescope by penning a few thoughts on the current trend towards minimalism.
To start with, what is minimalism?
As there ...
DATE: Sep 10, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Robin Trimingham
Over more than 20 years of practice in Bermuda, anecdotal stories filtered through from employees short-changed by their employers had almost always the same sad outcome — little to no recourse for recovering a 15 to 20 per cent reduction of their gr...
DATE: Sep 07, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have” — James Baldwin
Over the past week or so, we have seen Bermuda divided yet once again, based around the Pride parade last Saturday and the ...
DATE: Sep 06, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
