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In Bermuda, new housing is rarely criticised, except perhaps on environmental grounds.
Demand for housing has long outstripped supply. The major reasons for this is the Island's limited size and a combination of rising affluence and shrinking average...
DATE: Oct 13, 2010
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Less than 18 months ago, Premier Dr. Ewart Brown brought four Uighur detainees from Guantánamo Bay to Bermuda.
He said then that the move was a humanitarian one, that there was no quid pro quo and it was simply the right thing to do.
In doing so, he ...
DATE: Oct 13, 2010
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Trim some jobs here!
October 9, 2010
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This is the perfect time for the Civil Service to begin trimming the workforce. Those persons in Immigration and Works and Engineering, responsible for hiring this French National, should be the first to...
DATE: Oct 12, 2010
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It was a graphic and highly effective way to illustrate a problem. Mould experts brought to Bermuda to conduct court-sanctioned testing of Hamilton Police Station said they found conditions so bad in the building that they immediately left to put on ...
DATE: Oct 11, 2010
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No say in who leads
October 6, 2010
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Your columnist Al Seymour, writes (Royal Gazette, Monday, October 4) "the election of a new PLP leader is technically an inside job with Party delegates making the choice, but the outcome will in one way ...
DATE: Oct 09, 2010
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"Many a false step was made by standing still" — Fortune cookie
JOHN Barritt Opposition MP isn't just making this stuff up, Mr. Editor. The need for parliamentary reform is not unique to Bermuda. These are new winds of change sweeping their way throu...
DATE: Oct 08, 2010
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Barring a major mistake or an unexpected event, Paula Cox will be the Premier of Bermuda in around three weeks time, according to the latest Royal Gazette survey.
Ms Cox, the Deputy Premier and Finance Minister, has been the front-runner for the job ...
DATE: Oct 08, 2010
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Today is Friday, October 8, the 281st day of 2010. There are 84 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1954, Communist-led Vietnamese forces the "Viet Minh", occupy Hanoi.
In 1970, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Pr...
DATE: Oct 08, 2010
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Clock is a bad idea
September 30, 2010
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I find it hard to believe that Rotary has the time, the energy, and may I say the sense, to advocate for a clock to be placed on the roundabout at the bottom of Trimmingham Hill.
1. It will most certai...
DATE: Oct 08, 2010
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A waste of time
October 4, 2010
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Re Public Meeting Park Hyatt Development held at Penno's Wharf this evening. If the organisation of the meeting held this evening is the standard of the proposed project – then God help St George's. What a to...
DATE: Oct 07, 2010
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