277 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "Opinion Writer"
Somebody somewhere, I bet, must have thought that they were pretty darn clever. I don’t. First of all it took them practically a year to come up with the referendum question. Secondly, none of us likes to be played for a fool or for stupid. The quest...
DATE: Dec 06, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
The following is a response by Shadow Minister of Workforce Development Rolfe Commissiong to employment expert Doug Soares’ recent Rotary Club speech on why some Bermudians struggle to compete for jobs in our economy
Firstly, Mr. Soares needs to be c...
DATE: Nov 19, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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It was more than a little disconcerting to see the announcement that Bermuda was placed on France’s tax haven list. One would think that there had to be a substantive reason for this pre-emptive label-tarnishing directly before the G20 meeting that j...
DATE: Sep 07, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Hope you all had a great holiday and have now fully-recovered.
There were definitely many sad post-Cup Match weekend faces on Monday, not to mention the ones who looked like they were positively hanging by a thread!
Think that your summer fun is now ...
DATE: Aug 09, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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Nothing to do in Bermuda?
You can’t beat the wit of Oscar Wilde. “I live in constant fear of not being misunderstood”, he once lamented. Of course Mr Wilde was no politician. Politicians have the opposite lament: they want to be always understood whatever they say however the...
DATE: Jul 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
The dreaded i-word was bound to come up, I suppose Mr Acting Editor. It was too good an opportunity for some to pass up on the opportunity to revive the issue of independence for Bermuda. I suppose too, that like clocks that have stopped ticking, it ...
DATE: Jun 14, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
Are Young Men More Irresponsible Financially Than Young Women? We heard from old men and their opinion of young women and their finances in the Royal Gazette article of April 06, 2013. http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20130406/COLUMN07/704069989 ...
DATE: May 25, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Part 2 of Young Women and Their Money. (Part 1 was featured on April 06, 2013 in the Royal Gazette.
Young women, Older women, Ancient women. This is the realistic picture of our lifespan from age thirty going forward. Thus, the answer to how much sh...
DATE: Apr 13, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
You know the saying, Mr Acting Editor, the more things change the more they stay the same. The Throne Speech ritual endured once again — with some minor variations. It was long, yes, (45 minutes or so) but it was mercifully short, perhaps pointedly s...
DATE: Feb 15, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
Please, Mr Acting Editor, I do not mean to make light of the recent double murder and the outrage that has followed when I ask this question: how many times must we go around the political mulberry bush before we take action?
I am trying to make a po...
DATE: Feb 01, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt