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A card of thanks
January 2, 2009
Dear Sir,
Please allow me in your valuable editorial on behalf of Prospect Primary School and Prospect Pre School to thank the various establishments who sponsored both schools for their Christmas Fundraisers and both...
DATE: Jan 12, 2009
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BOSTON — There was a time when any woman who attributed her success to luck risked getting ticketed by the feminist police. To say that your crowning achievement was a matter of good fortune rather than your own smarts, ambition and hard work was as ...
DATE: Jan 12, 2009
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About one month from now, Finance Minister Paula Cox will deliver what will certainly be the most difficult Budget speech of her career.
Those who somehow thought that Bermuda would be immune from the global economic downturn must know now that they ...
DATE: Jan 12, 2009
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Tech education needed– December 16, 2008
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Re: Bring back Tech (December 5, 2008)
Times have changed; apprenticeships are no longer the arduous five-year skill of hand and machining that they used to be. Technicians are no longer expected to...
DATE: Jan 10, 2009
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Today in our history
In 2004, Finance Minister Eugene Cox died. In 1880, HMS Northampton arrived, giving Bermudians their first sight of electricity.
DATE: Jan 09, 2009
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December 19, 2008
WHEN John Swan was Premier - and even before he became his unofficial hatchet man and Number One Apologist - I thought Mike Winfield was a pretty unbearable politician.
He was always out there pushing for everyone to stop second-gue...
DATE: Jan 09, 2009
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The controversy over whether a beach bar should be allowed during the summers at Warwick Long Bay throws two different visions of tourism – and Bermuda generally – into sharp relief.
Those who feel, and there are many, that Bermuda lacks a fun quotie...
DATE: Jan 09, 2009
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In defence of ZBM
January 7, 2009
Dear Sir,
I am unaccustomed to responding to anonymous letters as they could be from gutless or devious people. The letter from "Mr. Anonymous" addresses the fact that ZBM-TV started the NFL telecast 22 minutes late ...
DATE: Jan 09, 2009
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Dry-cleaners aren't good
January 2, 2009
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I'd really like to know why on this wealthy Island there is not one decent dry-cleaners. Locals pay enormous prices for poor service, often receiving an item back ruined. Dry-cleaners in the US get i...
DATE: Jan 08, 2009
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In January, 1883 the first official visit by Her Royal Highness Princess Louise took place, marking the birth of Bermuda's tourism industry. On January 6, 1976, the first Bermuda Festival began.
DATE: Jan 08, 2009
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