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This is an open letter to the financial institution employees offered voluntary retirement this week of November 10, 2012 as well as to all individuals who have been made redundant during Bermuda’s serious economic downturn.
This week has been a tou...
DATE: Nov 17, 2012
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Martha Harris Myron
The US general election has arguably offered us the good, the bad and the ugly; a process that while flawed, remains essential. While any election has the potential to divide, it does include the genius of the secret ballot which allows citizens to f...
DATE: Nov 17, 2012
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Glenn Fubler
Albert Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
Last week’s article sparked a healthy debate as to why or why not the national cricketers should be compensated for being chosen to represent their...
DATE: Nov 16, 2012
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Clay Smith
I have to congratulate the Bermuda National Athletics Association on making an excellent choice in appointing Troy Douglas to the post of head coach.
We can already see the benefit of his many years of experience performing and coaching at the highes...
DATE: Nov 16, 2012
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DJLT
Once upon a time this was a serious column. It didn’t last long. At the end of my first month I realised you were never going to read about lentils unless I made it funny. No-one likes to be told what to do, especially if you are halfway through a pa...
DATE: Nov 16, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Once again the World Rugby Classic has courted controversy which is a great shame given that it remains one of the most, if not most popular annual sporting events.
In terms of attendance, it’s difficult to find any other event which attracts so man...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Adrian Robson
I support, applaud and empathise with the disenfranchised students lobbying for absentee balloting.
This vexing issue of absentee voting has been around at least since I was a student in the UK over 40 years ago when the UBP were in power. It was a t...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Phil Perinchief
Wow, so many decorations seem to have sprung up suddenly over the past week! Spare a thought for those in other parts of the world who have to put up with Yuletide music and decorations from September/October and are already Christmassed-out by Novem...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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Nothing to do in Bermuda?
President Barack Obama’s victory will likely not have a huge effect on the market and the US economy over the short to intermediate term. Nor will it change the bigger economic or fiscal picture for the US.
But there are perceived areas, on the marg...
DATE: Nov 14, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
Over the last seven years the Government has amassed an incredible and downright scary amount of debt. $1.45 billion is such a large amount that it seems almost fictitious. It is so hard to quantify that we might as well call it a gazillion. To put i...
DATE: Nov 14, 2012
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