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The little baby is so cute and cuddly, with everyone bubbling with excitement over the new angel, and what plans are in store for his or her future. At least at this stage, the world holds promise, as the joy of an innocent arrival never ceases to be...
DATE: Feb 08, 2010
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Money well spent
February 2, 2010
Dear Sir,
Everyone I know seems to be pretty dismayed at the idea of Government taking $800,000 of our money to do a report on the Corporations which we won't be able to see.
Wait just a second, though. The two law f...
DATE: Feb 05, 2010
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Spirit of the people
The following letter was sent to Joyce Joell-Hayden and copied to The Royal Gazette. Ms Joell-Hayden gave Bob and Sarah Hayden a lift in her car and a short sight-seeing tour.
December 21, 2009
Dear Joyce,
Our trip was magical. B...
DATE: Feb 05, 2010
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The owners of the House of India have asked us to make it clear that they have no connection whatsoever to the three-bedroom property near their restaurant, featured in yesterday's Royal Gazette, in which 18 Sri Lankans are said to have been living i...
DATE: Feb 05, 2010
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Cog in the wheel. Bump on a log. Heard but not seen. Forgotten but not gone. I have heard all of these expressions before, Mr. Editor, and not just recently, used variously to describe the lot of backbench MPs in the House on the Hill. I may even hav...
DATE: Feb 05, 2010
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I tell my students all the time, don't use the words "I can't". In fact, they are essentially banned from being uttered in my classroom. Once spoken, those two words indicate that a student is unwilling to try. And not trying is not an option!
The sa...
DATE: Feb 04, 2010
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When I heard Scott Brown, the newly elected senator from Massachusetts, describe himself as a "Scott Brown Republican," I groaned. It sounded as if he's coming to Washington to be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
We don't need another k...
DATE: Feb 04, 2010
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Keep schools open
January 28, 2010
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I am shocked at Government's latest threat to close five successful, functioning primary schools. They are obviously hell bent on completing the job of ruining the chances of anyone in the public school sy...
DATE: Feb 04, 2010
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In1783, Britain's King George III proclaimed a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.
In 1789, electors chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
In 1945, President Franklin D. R...
DATE: Feb 04, 2010
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"There are lies, damned lies and statistics," said Victorian Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in what has become a well-worn phrase.
But nowhere does that seem truer than in Police statistics, both in Bermuda and elsewhere.
Re-categorising classes of...
DATE: Feb 03, 2010
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