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The red shoes or the blue shoes … mmmm. Decisions, decisions.
We are faced with a multitude of them every day, ranging from the banal to the life-changing from footwear to what kind of sandwich to make, to choices about our future...
DATE: Nov 06, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
One of the questions that arise at all times is the following. How did the wealthy become so rich? And why aren’t they spreading it around?
The answers, if I may presume to speak for them, are: They earned their wealth (yes, well, a minority inherit...
DATE: Nov 03, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Tis the season of terrifying monsters. Have you ever left a task on your To Do list, perhaps even a mundane one? And because it’s a little unpleasant you’ve avoided it and left it there so long that over time it’s snowballed and grown until it’s no l...
DATE: Oct 30, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
Considerable commentary seen lately regarding the demographics of the potential continued domestic employee population in Bermuda. I say, potential, because it is a statistical fact that unemployment among Bermudian residents is high and continuing t...
DATE: Oct 27, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Clearing out the explosive jungle that constitutes part of the garden while enjoying fall, a favourite season in Bermuda, the parallels between the growth of plants and the appreciation and allocation of an investment portfolio seemed natural.
Bermud...
DATE: Oct 20, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
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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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
When the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (“PACE”) was passed in Bermuda in December 2005 it represented a revolution in Bermuda’s criminal justice process.
As far back as 1992, Stephen Tumin, Chair of the Criminal Justice Review Board, had been cri...
DATE: Sep 28, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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Bond values and interest rates related to government debt (called sovereign bonds) have been featured repeatedly in finance news for months. Headline focus has been eastward on Euro zone countries, such as Italy, which has been challenged with higher...
DATE: Sep 15, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Investment markets took a sharp rise upwards on Thursday of this week in reaction to supportive moves from the European Central Bank, under president Mario Draghi, with the implementation of an unlimited buying programme of EU zone sovereign debt. Ye...
DATE: Sep 08, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Dividends de Rigueur. A basket of dividend-producing stocks used to be called the old people’s retirement portfolio. The stocks had certain characteristics, sort of like the retirees themselves: consistent payouts, relatively stable dividend yields, ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
