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The Bermuda national cricket team kick off their World Cup Twenty/20 qualifying campaign today after two good, hard practice games.
Against Italy and Canada we were able to get some quality competitive games under our belts. Now it’s tournament time...
DATE: Nov 15, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
There rarely is anything new under the sun, folks, and we are mistaken to expect otherwise. Or so it seems. The Throne Speech contained few surprises except maybe for the bit on the ten percent off groceries on Wednesdays. Yet even that was a bit of ...
DATE: Nov 15, 2013
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
Last week’s column looked at the social masks we wear, the personas we often rely on to hide our true selves in fear that if people really saw who we were beneath, they might not approve or accept us, or we might face flat-out rejection.
The desire t...
DATE: Nov 12, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
The drop in temperature and the rainy and bluster of the last week or so has gone a long way to knocking any ideas of fishing out of most peoples’ heads. What is it about the Rugby Classic that seems to hail the onset of winter?
Quite apart form the ...
DATE: Nov 09, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Tired of banking transactions? There’s a new money concept out there.
Bermuda is a complex financial environment. We tend to forget this fact, until we have to trudge down to a bank teller for travelling money, or negotiate a foreign currency tran...
DATE: Nov 09, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
I have a warning for the many Manchester United fans here in Bermuda ahead of their big clash with Premier League leaders Arsenal tomorrow . . . if the Gunners can go to Dortmund and get a result, then they can go to Old Trafford and get a result.
I...
DATE: Nov 09, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Clyde Best
The incongruous sight of a posse of 6ft 6in brutes riding atop a tiny scooter along Front Street is a sure sign that the Classic’s back in town.
It’s hardly the macho image that rugby players would want to portray but then they don’t give a hoot whil...
DATE: Nov 08, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Adrian Robson
Bermuda national cricket team fly to Dubai tonight for the Twenty20 World Cup Qualifiers with hope of claiming one of the six available places that are up for grabs.
This past weekend seven of the Bermuda England-based cricketers met at Horsham Cric...
DATE: Nov 08, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
Having reached the milestone of five “and three quarters” Chloe started big school in September. Full of chatter and non-stop questions, words have always been her thing. At the tender age of two, she asked her nursery teacher for an otoscope. I didn...
DATE: Nov 08, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Throne Speeches tend to be overrated, I think, mostly by the politicians and those who write them- and, no, they are not always one and the same. A wordsmith (or two?) is often required to weave together all the disparate pieces which often come in t...
DATE: Nov 08, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
