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Internal party politics, as Dame Jennifer Smith, Dr. Grant Gibbons and Alex Scott will readily attest, can be much more brutal than anything that happens between political parties.
Wayne Furbert learned that lesson yesterday when his party colleagues...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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Hector hears that the future is looking anything but bright for Scott Simmons, the Premier’s personal Press Secretary.
The former Progressive Labour Party spokesman was elevated to Dr. Brown’s newly-created, closely-knit coterie shortly after the Pre...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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This is the full text of Wayne Furbert’s speech in which he resigned as leader of the United Bermuda Party:
The last couple of months have been challenging for the United Bermuda Party and especially me as its leader.
All of my life, all I have ever ...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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Are you in the PLP elite?
March 23, 2007
Dear Sir,
Despite the rhetoric we hear every day, if you are a black person then chances are the PLP is not the party for you. (If you are white the PLP is probably not for you either, but that’s another story...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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Get control of crime
February 7, 2007
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I read The Royal Gazettefrom my home in North Smithfield, Rhode Island on a daily basis and it truly disturbs me that the drug trade and proliferation within this tiny island appears to be growing in wh...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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Voices in the US are growing louder asking the question: Is Barack Obama all style and little substance?
The freshman Illinois senator began his campaign facing the perception that he lacks the experience to be president, especially compared to rival...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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Today in HistoryToday is Thursday, March 29, the 88th day of 2007. There are 277 days left in the year.
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In 1867, Britain’s Parliament passed the British North America Act (later known as the Constitution Act) to create the Dominion of Ca...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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Preserve South Shore vistas
March 25, 2007
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The South Shore can well be called the backbone of Bermuda. As taxi drivers can attest, the “vista” value for tourists is powerful and evocative, and every tourist will drive it. Resident walkers a...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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Today in HistoryToday is Wednesday, March 28, the 87th day of 2007. There are 278 days left in the year.
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In 1854, during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia.
In 1979, the US’ worst nuclear accident occurred at the ...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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BERLIN (Reuters) — When French President Jacques Chirac said goodbye to the European Union on Sunday, many of his allies might have been forgiven for saying good riddance.Chirac steps down as president in May after 12 years in power, and a weekend pa...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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