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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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Opinion Writer
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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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Opinion Writer
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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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The Bermuda electorate is bubbling with emotions never seen or heard before with a tidal wave of attacks and counter attacks over who should be given the right to govern this Island, in order to move away from a slide to an economic abyss.
No electio...
DATE: Nov 13, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Oops!
… A mistake.
Be it an erroneous fact or bad judgment call, we got it wrong, we messed up, we let someone down, if only ourselves. I’ve heard it claimed that statistically, an average of 70 percent of the decisions we make are wrong. What is cer...
DATE: Nov 13, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
In Bermuda, police officers have the power, under various laws, to stop and search people (and vehicles) if they have reasonable grounds to suspect these individuals have stolen goods, drugs or weapons. These powers are a legitimate tool of law enfor...
DATE: Nov 13, 2012
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It sure looks like winter is hell bent on coming early to the northeastern United States. We can be rightfully thankful that the weather has given us a miss, even though we have had a sampling of wind, rain and thunder. Nothing to cause more than min...
DATE: Nov 10, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
News that Newcastle manager Alan Pardew wants to take Andy Carroll back to St James Park certainly got my attention, not least because his loan period at my former club, West Ham, might be cut short in order to facilitate the move during the transfer...
DATE: Nov 10, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clyde Best
