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There is growing evidence that the long dark night that has been our recession may be coming to an end.
As recently outlined by Premier Paula Cox, and featured in the daily paper, recent news on a host of fronts indicates that confidence in Bermuda a...
DATE: Oct 10, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Rolfe Commissiong
Children are a gift of the Lord. The Bible says that a person is blessed “whose quiver is full of them”. Sometimes when children are growing up it does not seem that they are such a blessing. Early on there are the feedings in the middle of the night...
DATE: Oct 09, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Philip Brownell
Doing the school run the other day, the radio news reported a shooting and murder. My five-year-old son asked me, “Mummy, why would they do that?” Entirely too late to just lower the volume and pretend I didn’t hear, I had to try to answer.
I specul...
DATE: Oct 09, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
Recently, a Government spokesman and Progressive Labour Party candidate said the One Bermuda Alliance “hasn’t told us how they are going to address Bermuda’s most vexing challenges”.
This statement is rich because the Government has not told the peop...
DATE: Oct 09, 2012
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Whether you like it or not, the world’s monetary authorities are a significant factor and force in the global economy — especially the US Federal Reserve (Fed).
On September 13, the Fed announced a third round of Quantitative Easing (QE), a non-trad...
DATE: Oct 08, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
So it seems Rio Ferdinand’s England career is pretty much over.
Following the recent retirement of John Terry, Roy Hodgson’s latest England squad for the World Cup qualifiers against San Marino and Poland showed he is looking to the future.
That mean...
DATE: Oct 06, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Clyde Best
Bermuda residents — do you know how your health insurance premiums are being spent? There have been discussions, knowledgeable questions and in some cases, vague, obtuse answers about the state of the health of our country and its health providers in...
DATE: Oct 06, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
The autumn steadily progresses as winter waits in the wings and it really looks as if this year will go down as one of the more lacklustre for sports fishing.
There may be a couple of intra-club fun tournaments left but, at this stage, most of the i...
DATE: Oct 06, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
No matter what the circumstances of last weekend’s football fracas at Police Field — and there are conflicting accounts — the end result remains the same. Another crushing blow has been delivered to Bermuda Football Association’s drive to recruit mor...
DATE: Oct 05, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Adrian Robson
Let me start this piece by saying we have an issue with customer service in my workplace. It is usually based around people who have a poor work ethic and appear to not appreciate having a job. They simply don’t get that people should just do their j...
DATE: Oct 05, 2012
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DJLT