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January 25, 2008
WE, in Bermuda, often seem to live in a world where we believe "it can't happen here" until it does happen here. I suspect that the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands thought the same way when Michael Misick came to power a few y...
DATE: Jan 30, 2009
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Wednesday's rugby report in The Royal Gazette (Teachers top after hard win, Page 16) said that injuries received by two Mariners players, Dustin Archibald and Steve Husbands, were the result of cynical play by their opponents, Teachers RFC.
In fact b...
DATE: Jan 30, 2009
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Two road safety issues
January 20, 2008
Dear Sir,
There have been a number of letters recently submitted to the editor regarding road safety. There have been two issues that I have not seen raised that if properly addressed would reduce the frequency...
DATE: Jan 29, 2009
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Bermuda faces a serious performance challenge in the years ahead; a challenge driven by the failure to solve public problems that have been long known to us.
We have made similar statements over the past year mostly by drawing attention to the distur...
DATE: Jan 29, 2009
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The seemingly never-ending dispute between Government and the taxi industry has blown up again with 200 or more cab operators now facing the spectre of being forced off the road at the end of the month. The reason? Apparently, their vehicles are not ...
DATE: Jan 28, 2009
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The following are editorial opinions from newspapers from around the world which may be of interest to Royal Gazette readers.
The Paducah Sun, Kentucky,
on the presidency of George W. Bush
The cloud of controversy hovered over George W. Bush's head e...
DATE: Jan 28, 2009
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Today in Bermuda's history
In 1951, Aquarium Curator Louis S. Mowbray, Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy and David Wingate rediscovered the Cahow (the Bermuda Petrel) on the Castle Harbour Islands. The bird had been thought to have been extinct since the 17t...
DATE: Jan 28, 2009
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Give emergency services GPS
January 22, 2009
Dear Sir,
Sam Strangeways' story "Ambulance driver tells inquest: 'I did my best'" touched me. Surely when we see our loved ones needing medical help urgently we expect those (ie 911 and EMT) who can provi...
DATE: Jan 28, 2009
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WASHINGTON — Before President Obama can do, he must undo. Repairing the damage that George W. Bush did to the nation's values, honour and pride will be complicated and, at times, politically inconvenient. But nothing is more urgent, and nothing will ...
DATE: Jan 27, 2009
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The Opposition United Bermuda Party might is right to say that changes to traffic laws and increased enforcement of the law are the best possible ways to return sanity to the roads and to prevent road deaths.
But it is wrong to oppose the use of grap...
DATE: Jan 27, 2009
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