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We don't like talking about death in Bermuda. We talk about 'passing' and the glory of 'going home', but not about dying. We talk about being 'laid to rest', not being buried.
One fellow columnist recently talked about someone being 'funeralised', wh...
DATE: Jul 01, 2008
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Breeding gossip well
June 23, 2008
Dear Sir,
THE RUMOUR MILL
Our Bermuda she is a beautiful land
Her sweet smallness breeds gossip well
We tell stories of one another's mistakes
How the populace drinks in the love affairs
Stares in the street brings ...
DATE: Jul 01, 2008
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Considering our options
June 18, 2008
Dear Sir,
As tourists coming to Bermuda, we are concerned about the lack of courtesy exhibited by the public bus driver on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 while we were travelling east along Middle Road in Paget when a bu...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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A change of style
June 25, 2008
Dear Sir,
December seems like a long time ago. But in just six months the regime has the following to it's credit:
1) The Labour Party cannot figure out how to deal with labour. The police are ticked off, understaffed ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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It just doesn't cut it
June 26, 2008
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First of all, I completely agree with economist Craig Simmons's analysis of the economy and the present PLP administration's approach to easing the burden on the poor. I too arrived at a poverty datum li...
DATE: Jun 28, 2008
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Following an article in the Friday June 27 edition Nadine Browne-Evans would like to point out that she was referring to both Government and the Whitney Trustees, not just Government, when she gave them a deadline of one week to find a resolution for...
DATE: Jun 28, 2008
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Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States:
Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, on offshore drilling:
The legendary Willie Sutton robbed banks because, as he famously explained, that's where the money was.
The United States shou...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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BOSTON — Well now, isn't that a relief. The infamous "pregnancy pact" at Gloucester High School turns out to be an urban legend. The media mobs that descended on the fishing town may now pack up their cameras and their moral outrage.
It's all over, f...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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The portrait of the late Rt. Revd. Anselm Genders which was printed with an article on his passing on June 25 was painted by the late artist Sam Morse Brown. The Royal Gazette apologises for the oversight of not crediting the artist earlier.
DATE: Jun 26, 2008
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Do bridge work at night
June 23, 2008
Dear Sir,
Why is it that "we the public" find our purse constantly being abused? (In this case by Works and Engineering) i.e. the latest is, over the weekend, work was being done to the bridge, (that by the way, ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2008
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