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It is becoming apparent that the angling season is coming to a close. Not the fishing season — that still has some weeks to run before it too becomes stymied as the winter gales take their toll on fishable days and the falling temperatures convince t...
DATE: Sep 20, 2014
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Tight Lines
Wounds that heal and cracks that fix
Tell me all your politik
And open up your eyes
— Cold Play
Last year I wrote a piece titled the “Full Monty” speaking to the challenges facing Bermuda’s IB sector. I think these issues bear repeating.
Bermudians h...
DATE: Sep 19, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
Last weekend there were some very one-sided T20 games, which makes me wonder whether the Lindo’s T20 tournament should have been split into two divisions, just like the 50-overs league.
With the national team preparing for a Division Three tournament...
DATE: Sep 19, 2014
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Clay Smith
Speaking is relatively easy. The thinking bit is harder. So always be sure the brain is in gear before putting the jaw in motion: I have never forgotten that admonition. The same is true for writing, don’t you think, Mr Editor? Well, we try. So when ...
DATE: Sep 19, 2014
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John Barritt
Last week I wrote about Jenna and that’s a little hard to follow. The highs and lows of our domestic life seem less significant these days. It’s a sense of perspective that I am trying not to lose. Everything I have to complain about seems ridiculous...
DATE: Sep 19, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
It was around 7.30pm on Monday, September 1 when I could hear one of my sons crying. Dinner conversation had concluded, and they had just finished up the milkshakes I had promised them. We were all pumped up to play Pictionary, but we had some chores...
DATE: Sep 19, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Bryant Trew
A Latin Dinner and Dancing Charity Night in support of the Women’s Resource Centre takes place at The Reefs on Friday, September 26. From 6.30pm until 11pm, DJ Travis will play the best Latin and contemporary tunes. Tickets are $65, and include dinne...
DATE: Sep 18, 2014
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Nothing to do in Bermuda?
Anyone who travels is aware the major air carriers have gotten a bit greedy in recent years. Despite sluggish real wage growth and elevated unemployment levels, most airlines continue to whack customers with high fares and extra costs. Carriers are c...
DATE: Sep 16, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
Recently I came back from a training in the States. I was sitting in the Newark airport waiting for my connecting flight from Pittsburgh back to Bermuda. I looked up to the television monitor, and CNN told me that Joan Rivers had died. I didn’t know ...
DATE: Sep 16, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Philip Brownell
Down at the beach last week, so much seaweed had washed up that there wasn’t a square inch of sand to be seen from the waterline to the steps. A thick carpet of fly-buzzing Sargassum covered everything. I stood on the bottom stair deliberating if I r...
DATE: Sep 16, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
