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In the latest in a series by Age Concern looking at the challenges facing senior citizens, Cordell Riley looks at how a shrinking working population will have to financially support many more people ...
The western trend of an ageing population has n...
DATE: Dec 10, 2012
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This is a response to an Editorial in The Royal Gazette on December 3.
1. Thanks for finally recognising that the adoption of the Cambridge Curriculum was the enactment of a recommendation contained in the ‘Hopkins Report’.
2. The hope “ … that mor...
DATE: Dec 10, 2012
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I feel obligated to respond to PLP candidate Vince Ingham’s claim (at the Victor Scott Primary PLP meeting on December 5) that the business community in Bermuda ‘have no social conscience and they are acting for their own interests’. This is an irres...
DATE: Dec 10, 2012
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On December 18, 2012, Bermuda will face the same problems that it faced on December 16, the day before the election. The solutions seen and needed from and after December 18 will be the same as the solutions that were apparent on December 16, 2012.
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DATE: Dec 10, 2012
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Swan and Burchall
Somewhat unsurprisingly, given their track records, both Alex Ferguson and Roberto Mancini have played some mind games ahead of tomorrow’s Manchester derby.
Mancini has labelled arch-rivals United as title favourites ahead of the top-of-the-table cla...
DATE: Dec 08, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Clyde Best
Bermuda resident readers of the Moneywise column tell me that they like to read my articles (and I thank them for that) but they will inevitably point out that they aren’t too interested when I go off on United States tax tangents.
Well, they have a...
DATE: Dec 08, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
As the carol goes, “fast away the old year passes” so does the fishing for this year. With just enough inclement weather on the weekends and plenty of diverse onshore distractions to keep the anglers home, there has not been much in the way of wet l...
DATE: Dec 08, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Another sad day for Bermuda Cricket Board as Derek Wright is no longer affiliated with them. Sad to admit but it's been a long time coming.
Having worked with Derek on the Outreach/Selection Committee, with him appointed as the chairman at that time...
DATE: Dec 07, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
December is not a month for doing too much in the garden except for a god tidy up, in time for the upcoming ‘holiday season’ when gifts will be exchanged and many discarded as not being functional, too big or whatever.
Giving is a personal thing. Siz...
DATE: Dec 07, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Malcolm Griffiths
Bermuda Cricket Board held their Annual General Meeting last month.
How did we know? We didn’t.
The governing body of cricket, the Island’s national sport, neglected to tell the media, i.e the public, they were about to decide how the sport should be...
DATE: Dec 07, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Adrian Robson