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Winter is over, according to the local fishing calendar and it is now formally tournament season. That may have been in doubt this week, but now the bluster has gone out of the weather and boats have been able to start concentrating on the offshore s...
DATE: May 03, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
I found myself in a bizarre situation today. I was delivering a presentation on nutritional strategies for stress defence when I got a little flustered. This is a topic I know and love, so why was I struggling to maintain my composure? Because my spa...
DATE: May 02, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
With the league season merely days away, I have not been impressed with what I have seen thus far from players and clubs. Sadly, our season is due to start this weekend and it would not surprise me if the start of the season is postponed.
For the sak...
DATE: May 02, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
It’s ironic really. One party complains about criticism levelled by the other and invariably replies in kind, whether by style or in substance, or both, touching of further rounds of more of the same. So it goes in politics in Bermuda as the kettle c...
DATE: May 02, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
When I went public with the decision to return to Bermuda, the tone of responses ranged from the congratulatory to the incredulous.
Leaving The Times was a difficult thing to do, being as it is right at the forefront of cutting-edge journalism. But I...
DATE: Apr 30, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
Politics can be pretty distasteful. “My team is better than your team.” There is a lot of posturing, manipulating information and situations, trying to take credit or discredit where possible … all to look good and gain favour. It’s bad enough puttin...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
Few people are unaware of the number of horrible events in the United States in recent years, largely because guns are so plentiful that they often end up in the hands of the mentally challenged, with devastating results, and despite efforts from pol...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
This last Sunday was Easter. ‘The Ten Commandments’ were on television again. I used to enjoy watching that movie, and then I began to wonder why they were showing ‘The Ten Commandments’ when Easter had to do with Jesus. Jesus wasn’t on the scene yet...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Philip Brownell
For many people the stock market was already viewed as a casino and a giant gamble; its systems and processes opaque and nonsensical. The latest firestorm on High Frequency Trading (HFT) has not helped dispute this view. Lately the market has been bu...
DATE: Apr 29, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
Dear Carla: I was in a relationship for two years. I went away for a trip for two weeks and the day I was coming back I received a message from my then boyfriend stating he can no longer lie to me and needs to come clean about a few things. I was sho...
DATE: Apr 28, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Carla Zuill
