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Businessman and political gadfly Tony Brannon's claims last week that "black Bermudians", egged on by the Bermuda Industrial Union, were responsible for the decline of tourism in the 1990s, have rightly been condemned.
Bigotry and racism stem from th...
DATE: Feb 12, 2007
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Businessman and political gadfly Tony Brannon's claims last week that "black Bermudians", egged on by the Bermuda Industrial Union, were responsible for the decline of tourism in the 1990s, have rightly been condemned.
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DATE: Feb 12, 2007
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TODAY IN HISTORYToday is Monday, February 12, the 43rd day of 2007. There are 322 days left in the year.
ON THIS DATE
In 1554 — Lady Jane Grey, who’d claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were beheaded after ...
DATE: Feb 12, 2007
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Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers around the world:
The Star-Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, on the Democratic presidential candidates and Iraq:
The Democratic contenders itching to replace President Bush are using the Iraq inferno as a sou...
DATE: Feb 10, 2007
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The recent spate of violent crime should be of grave concern to the community, especially as it comes on the heels of the news that violent crime in the last three months of 2006 spiked in spite of a decline in the overall crime rate.
This newsroom i...
DATE: Feb 09, 2007
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We deserve better
February 6, 2007
Dear Sir,
Am I the only black woman in Bermuda confused by our leaders? They want us to know, they won't let us forget, our racist history. White folks are the devil, except for the white foreign nationals who run b...
DATE: Feb 09, 2007
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The recent spate of violent crime should be of grave concern to the community, especially as it comes on the heels of the news that violent crime in the last three months of 2006 spiked in spite of a decline in the overall crime rate.
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DATE: Feb 09, 2007
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A good deal has been written in recent days about the experimental long line fishing project being undertaken off the Island by the US fishing boat Eagle Eye II.
Long line fishing, in which fishing boats trawl using long fishing lines with hundreds o...
DATE: Feb 09, 2007
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Wake up, Bermuda February 5, 2007Dear Sir,My wife and I are long-time Bermuda visitors. As you have heard over and over by many guests, Bermuda is paradise, the most beautiful place in the world, etc. Thes...
DATE: Feb 08, 2007
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Just weeks after the release of graduation figures showing that half of the Island?s public senior school students failed to graduate, the Island was rocked on Tuesday with the news that around 60 percent of the Island?s 16- to 25-year-olds do not ha...
DATE: Feb 08, 2007
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