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With a new year now underway, it is worth considering a global issue with huge ramifications for Bermuda.
Its importance to the Island was emphasised when Premier Ewart Brown recently went to Copenhagen to observe the Climate Change conference and to...
DATE: Jan 04, 2010
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This is a New Year message from the Bermuda Democratic Alliance:
A t midnight on December 31 2009, we called to a close the year 2009 and welcomed not only a New Year, but a new decade with the start of 2010. The Bermuda Democratic Alliance believes ...
DATE: Jan 04, 2010
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Protect bus drivers
December 21, 2009
Dear Sir,
There have been too many recent instances of violent assault at the Hamilton bus terminal on our bus drivers. These incidents not only physically and mentally hurt the drivers but the passengers are al...
DATE: Jan 02, 2010
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This is, Mr. Editor, an appropriate time for reflection: the close of one year and the start of another, 400 and counting for Bermuda, and yet I can't help thinking that the more things change the more they stay the same.
Here's what got me thinking ...
DATE: Dec 31, 2009
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Today is Thursday, December 31, the 365th and final day of 2009. Today is New Year's Eve.
On this date
In 1759, Arthur Guinness founded his famous brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin.
In 1857, Britain's Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the cap...
DATE: Dec 31, 2009
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QUOTE DU JOUR:
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." Mark Twain. Who else?
DATE: Dec 31, 2009
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Despite some high points, few people tonight will be sorry when the clock chimes midnight and 2009 is consigned to the history books. It has been, in diplomatic terms, a difficult year. In honest language, it has been fairly miserable.
That's not to ...
DATE: Dec 31, 2009
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As the 400-year anniversary reaches its "official" close, it's useful to remember that most of the original survivors of the Sea Venture shipwreck of 1609 actually left the island on May 10, 1610.
For ten months, the 150 marooned castaways struggled ...
DATE: Dec 31, 2009
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News that the Cayman Islands is actively considering proposals contained in the Bermuda First report for its own jurisdiction while debate in Bermuda has hardly begun should be a call to action.
That the Caymans have a greater sense of urgency about ...
DATE: Dec 30, 2009
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Get your house in order
December 28, 2009
Dear Sir,
For the first time in 20 years, I am planning a trip, and it does not have Bermuda as its destination. Reading The Royal Gazette online for the past few years has left me watching an island paradise...
DATE: Dec 30, 2009
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