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Flummoxed by feeds
August 3, 2009
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Can someone explain why channel 10 Fox on Bermuda Cablevision switches to channel 15 City TV's feed during prime time (9 p.m.-11 p.m.) when if you wanted to watch City TV you just have to press 15 on your ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2009
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It's likely that Friday's announcement by the Ministry of Education that 24 students will repeat their M3 year in middle school rather than going on to Berkeley Institute or CedarBridge Academy will cause some debate in education circles and in the b...
DATE: Aug 17, 2009
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Saltus unfairly criticised
August 7, 2009
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Last night, during the VSB news programme, US Consul General Gregory Slayton commented on education in Bermuda. During the segment, he stated that the private schools could improve and referenced Sa...
DATE: Aug 15, 2009
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Throughout this year there have been many significant events to mark 400 years of Bermuda's history. A major part of that history involved the struggle for social justice, mainly because our early beginnings came amid the dark period of slavery that ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2009
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A home from home
August 1, 2009
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On a recent visit to Bermuda my wife and I decided to get gym memberships for the month. We are both fitness junkies and during our first week here, sought out the different fitness facilities on the island. ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2009
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August 15 marks the fourth anniversary of my swearing in as US Consul General to Bermuda. And it will also mark the conclusion of our tour of duty. It is time to say goodbye and thank you to the many friends and allies that have helped us so kindly h...
DATE: Aug 14, 2009
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The absence of Her Majesty the Queen from our 400th Anniversary celebrations seemed to get more publicity in England than it did here.
Bermudians do need to understand, though, that Dr. Brown's agreement to give safe haven to Guantánamo Bay prisoners...
DATE: Aug 14, 2009
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WASHINGTON — Could it be the heat that's making people so angry and unreasonable at those town-hall meetings on health care? Might it just be the effect that Raymond Chandler described so brilliantly in the opening lines of his 1938 short story "Red ...
DATE: Aug 13, 2009
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Spiralling costs
August 4, 2009
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Will someone in authority please do something about the spiralling cost of food in Bermuda? A loaf of bread cost almost $8 in Bermuda while that same loaf cost $1.60 in Florida. Low income families are havi...
DATE: Aug 13, 2009
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Time for a rum summit
July 30, 2009
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Obama has to hold a "Beer Summit" in order to help defuse a potential "politically dangerous" racial situation that he contributed to, by jumping in unprepared! Ewart Brown would have to throw a three-d...
DATE: Aug 12, 2009
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