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A note of thanks
Dear Sir,
The cast of Up with People departed Bermuda on Sunday as we concluded out first tour of the Island in ten years. Despite highly unusual and uncooperative weather patterns, we are excited and gratified by what we have accom...
DATE: Jul 01, 2009
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A lack of judgment
June 15, 2009
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Please allow me the opportunity of critically commenting on the Premier's decision to allow Uighur detainees from Guantánamo Bay into Bermuda. The internationalist in me wants to applaud this decision as a m...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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Government's decision to close down the corporations of Hamilton and St. George's has all the hallmarks of the Brown administration.
Ignoring submissions from the public, taking decisions in private without consultation and putting up an unresearched...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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In 1987, a minor earthquake occured.
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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I'm an American who came to the Island a number of years ago to participate in building the insurance and reinsurance sector as we know it today. I have been graciously welcomed by nearly all members of the community.
I don't know if I can ever adequ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2009
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Education Minister El James and the chairman of the Education Board, Mark Byrne, recently announced that Bermuda would adopt the Cambridge International Curriculum for Bermuda's public schools.
That was a good decision that ends Bermuda's attempts to...
DATE: Jun 29, 2009
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Subsidise visitors
June 4, 2009
Dear Sir,
There is much chatter about the decision on whether gambling should be allowed on docked cruise ships after hours. Most of this chatter revolves around gambling being a cure-all to our tourism problems.
It is...
DATE: Jun 29, 2009
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On June 28, 1901, the first Boer War prisoners (963) arrived on SS Armenian.
On June 28, 1972, the UK abolitionized the sterling, which left Bermuda stranded.
On June 29, 1615, Somers Island Company was formed.
On June 29,1793, the Town of Hamilton w...
DATE: Jun 29, 2009
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An article in Friday's paper about a lecture to be given by BBC film producer Hugh Pearson should have stated that dinner tickets to the events on June 30 and July 1 at the Bermuda Underwater Institute (BUEI) costs $33.75, but does not include the co...
DATE: Jun 29, 2009
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I'm an American who came to the Island a number of years ago to participate in building the insurance and reinsurance sector as we know it today. I have been graciously welcomed by nearly all members of the community.
I don't know if I can ever adequ...
DATE: Jun 29, 2009
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