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Freedom is the best term for democracy. Individual freedom to choose, free to be, free to express opinions, free to pursue individual goals and successes.
In two days, registered voters of Bermuda will tend to a virtual sacred rite.
We, the people,...
DATE: Dec 15, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
In the last 50 years Bermuda have produced three players who have gone on to join teams in the top flight of English football — a league generally considered the best in the world.
Not a bad statistic for an island this size.
Now another appears who ...
DATE: Dec 14, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Adrian Robson
Food for Thought
Chocolate Hazelnut Butter!
Tis the season to be snotty, fa la la la la, fa la la la! We’re toilet training, where’s the potty? Fa la la la la, fa la la la….. Well let’s start this with a big Bah-Humbug. For the second week runnin...
DATE: Dec 14, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
I believe that trade unions have been necessary over the years. If you go back in time, history will confirm that if trade unions did not exist, workers would have been abused, disadvantaged, exploited and treated unfairly by their employers. This is...
DATE: Dec 14, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
For all the good achieved by the Progressive Labour Party Government, and there has been some, the PLP overall gets a failing grade. Much of the good is no more than is to be expected of a responsible government. But no one expected so many disappoin...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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2012 has seen more of Bermuda’s children and their families sink further below the poverty line. With more parents unemployed and more still underemployed, the stresses faced have deeply impacted the well-being of the most vulnerable members of our c...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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‘There are others who feel the way I do and have experienced the same circumstances, but only I and one other of my colleagues were willing to come forward and speak of the injustice that is currently taking place with the practice of mandatory retir...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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Recently we’ve started thinking, as we are sure have many others, about what circumstances would be necessary for a recovery to finally take hold in Bermuda. Well ... first we have to come to terms with just what our current ugly truth is and its dir...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Swan and Burchall
One common concern among investors is the lack of income opportunities in the market. Bond yields have collapsed to record lows and offer very little absolute income. In fact most of the treasury curve actually offers negative real returns after acco...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
As with anything new, it takes a while before a “new” phenomenon of Independents gains traction and people begin to embrace it in larger and ever larger numbers.
Even the media, which should be way out in front of the general public in bringing inno...
DATE: Dec 11, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Phil Perinchief
