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By Clay Smith
Have you ever sat and wondered why people support the sporting teams that they do?
If you were to ask a few friends who they support and why I bet you would be amazed at some of the responses.
While most Bermudians have local teams t...
DATE: Jan 10, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
Most of us are tightening our belts after all that seasonal spending so, luckily for us, Bermuda Tourism are running an initiative to let us dine at many local restaurants for a reduced cost! Over 35 of Bermuda's top restaurants are participating in ...
DATE: Jan 09, 2014
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Nothing to do in Bermuda?
Tex Beneke, singing with the Glenn Miller orchestra, had a song about his gal in Kalamazoo — zoo — zoo. My mother and father loved Glenn Miller. When my dad was in the army during the Second World War, Glenn Miller’s orchestra was practicing on the b...
DATE: Jan 07, 2014
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Philip Brownell
I’ve just returned from two weeks in the UK, pootling around the countryside. There was the usual awkward scene at the car rental place. A last minute booking for the busiest part of the holiday, I was given one of those adorable, ‘bijoux’ European t...
DATE: Jan 07, 2014
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Julia Pitt
Most of Bermuda was engulfed in grief with the sudden passing recently of not just an elder stateswoman, but one who was a true champion for those with little or no voice in affairs of the Bermuda they helped to build. She displayed no fear in speaki...
DATE: Jan 07, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
In January of last year I laid out 13 unexpected events or surprise situations that were currently outside of the conventional consensus opinion that I felt had a reasonable chance of occurring (http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20130114/COLUMN05/7...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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Nathan Kowalski
Dear Carla: So my daughter who is 17, is an honour student always abides by curfew. She works and pays for her own phone, participates in community service etc. She asked me if she can go to a hotel for New Year’s Eve with friends. I said, “no”. She ...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014
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Carla Zuill
Happy New Year! How are those resolutions coming along? I seem to have limped into 2014 weighed down by a surprising amount of chocolate and an unsurprising lack of sleep. The excitement in our house has been somewhat out of control, but ‘tis the sea...
DATE: Jan 03, 2014
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Catherine Burns
This column is for all those readers who think I am too darn serious, too darn often. I know, I know, I can be: just not this week, for a change.
Instead I give you my idea of a fun way to see off the old year and to usher in the new, as well as a ch...
DATE: Jan 03, 2014
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John Barritt
As 2014 starts, the word for the week is “character”. Being an advocate of sports quotes, I want to share one of my favourites with you, “Sports do not build character. They reveal it” — John Wooden.
How true is this? What do sports tell us about the...
DATE: Jan 03, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
