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On December 18, 2015 President Obama signed the “Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015” (PATH Act). With significant publicity it was as if it was a Christmas present from President Obama and Congress to the American people. A few weeks pri...
DATE: Mar 01, 2016
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Dear Dr Nekia,
I am married to an alcoholic, and my husband has been battling this for a few years now. It is not easy. Sometimes he does really well and goes to his meetings, and other times things get really bad. At first I used to be embarrassed b...
DATE: Feb 29, 2016
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Nekia Walker
• The Elbow Beach Iyengar Yoga Centre invites you to a Weekend Yoga Intensive Workshop from Friday, March 11, to Sunday, March 13. The workshop will run from 6pm to 9pm on the Friday, and then from 9am until 1pm on the Saturday and Sunday, and is a r...
DATE: Feb 29, 2016
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Nothing to do in Bermuda?
Despite some calm days this past week, the fishing effort has been pretty limited. Lobster gear seems to be the number one priority and a few boats have put in some time drifting for bottom fish.
The handful of wahoo and tuna that have been caught a...
DATE: Feb 27, 2016
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Tight Lines
When we lose respect for each other, whether it is at the kitchen table or on the front lines of political activity, the inability to reason within an atmosphere of decency and sound judgment has a tendency to create negative emotions that appeal to ...
DATE: Feb 27, 2016
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Al Seymour
Meticulously prepared, the Budget is 54 pages long, replete with charts, statistics, analogies, historical data, and some very cautious optimism. It contains shrewd observations on our Bermuda financial environment: investments, government infrastruc...
DATE: Feb 27, 2016
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Martha Harris Myron
With $2.4 billion in debt, a $220 million annual deficit, a struggling tourism industry, international business under threat and no natural resources to export, Bermuda needs to grow up really fast.
Unfortunately, most of us resist change and few i...
DATE: Feb 26, 2016
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Bryant Trew
Pathways, Mr Editor, can be a very useful way for the Bermuda Government to signpost the direction in which it intends to lead us. The 2015-16 Budget is a very good example of this — and, yes, this reference to pathways is deliberate; to make a point...
DATE: Feb 26, 2016
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John Barritt
Walk with me. Good soil makes healthy plants, right?
I’m not a botanist but I think that’s how it works. I guess humans are the same way, well, childbearing humans at least.
Women are amazing biological marvels when they are pregnant, so the least ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2016
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Husayn Symonds
This week my eight-year-old had an assignment for school. As part of his All About Me project he had to create a display of things relevant to him — what’s important and how he’d like to represent himself to the class.
This project was not as easy as...
DATE: Feb 24, 2016
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Julia Pitt
