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The new OBA Government has made some interesting moves.
Getting Progressive Labour Party MP Randy Horton to agree to be Speaker of the House was a coup it increases their majority by reducing the number of Opposition party voters by one.
Some peopl...
DATE: Feb 15, 2013
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DJLT
Food for Thought for Friday 15th February 2013
It’s amazing how excited people get when they catch me with some kind of treat. It’s probably like catching a policeman speeding, but a lot more fun. I think it’s because it grants instant permission to ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Ah, Valentine’s Day, the festival of love and chocolate! Hope you’re all having a lovely one so far (if not, just eat more chocolate). Anyway, what is there to do in Bermuda in winter?
The answer is LOTS.
* Proving that Valentine’s Day activities d...
DATE: Feb 14, 2013
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Nothing to do in Bermuda?
‘Live With Passion’.
This is the printed slogan on the refillable water bottle I carry round with me a freebie from a conference I attended. I like it. I certainly like the idea at least. It seems like everyone who is quotable, from Harriet Tubman t...
DATE: Feb 12, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
It is already too late when parents of a young man with great promise discover the lifeless body of their son in bath tub after he experimented with a legal substance, still being sold in the United States and other countries, as a substitute for mar...
DATE: Feb 12, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
The investment industry’s obsession with measurement, performance and comparisons has always struck me as odd.
The fact that investment professionals expend so much time and energy devising various measures and comparative statistics seems at odds w...
DATE: Feb 11, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
Liberation by LIBOR? Well, here we go again. Type LIBOR in any search engine on the internet these days to review current multiple jurisdictional investigations, now against the third global financial institution (in what appears to be a continuous l...
DATE: Feb 09, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Hearing this week that Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher will be retiring at the end of the season after more than 700 appearances for his only club got me thinking about the loyalty — or lack of it — in English football these days.
Few players in ...
DATE: Feb 09, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clyde Best
“Mummy,” said Chloe, in the middle of grocery store, “where is my birth canal?” What is it about my kids and the need to chat about Babies-And-Where-They-Come-From in Lindo’s? Chloe especially has always been one to go for maximum embarrassment at th...
DATE: Feb 08, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Every now and then we get on to the subject of what do we do about the continuing rise of violence. We are losing, it seems, one young Bermudian male per week!!
The media this week published a statistic that since 2000 we have lost 140 young men thro...
DATE: Feb 08, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT