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Either naive or optimistic
April 16, 2009
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Michael McManus' piece supporting (George W.) Bush's ban on stem cell research was thought provoking. However well meaning he might have thought he was, to me he is either extremely naive or overly ...
DATE: Apr 24, 2009
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In 1946, Bermuda's first motorised bus service began.
DATE: Apr 23, 2009
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How did it survive?
April 20, 2009
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I read with interest the stories about my old workplace, ZBM the staff there need to wake up and smell the roses, we are in the midst of a recession, go back to work. I would assume the owner is seriously ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2009
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Four years ago, when Bermuda qualified for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, an editorial in this newspaper warned that the national team would have to work hard to raise the standard of its game if it was to avoid humiliation in the actual event.
We also ...
DATE: Apr 22, 2009
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Disgusted with BIU
April 9, 2009
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I am so disgusted with the behaviour of the BIU and its membership — don't they realise there is a worldwide recession? I think that all of the bus drivers who abandoned their duties — without advance notice...
DATE: Apr 22, 2009
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There are two events that have occurred recently of which Bermudians should have serious concern.
The first is the constitutional disruption that occurred in The Turks and Caicos Islands recently. The British Government, following an interim report o...
DATE: Apr 22, 2009
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BOSTON — They are not the only married couple in America who talk about taxes and ulcers in the same sentence. Nor are they the only couple who believe they are paying more than they should. On that ground they are part of a noisy majority.
But they ...
DATE: Apr 21, 2009
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Older Bermudians well remember the disastrous strike that crippled Bermuda Broadcasting Company in the mid-1980s and left the Island with no television and little radio for several months.
The silence on the airwaves then was akin to a national crisi...
DATE: Apr 21, 2009
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What goes around...
April 16, 2009
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In an effort to avoid the repercussions of vigilante justice and reduce the increasing scourge of unnecessary violence in my beautiful island home, I immediately contacted the Police when my property was s...
DATE: Apr 21, 2009
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February's retail sales figures showed that the global economic recession has truly hit Bermuda, as the volume of sales (the amount of sales after inflation has been taken out) plunged by 11 percent compared to 2008.
This newspaper remains somewhat s...
DATE: Apr 20, 2009
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