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May 17, 2005
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In a recent OECD review on road deaths in Europe, Portugal ranked the most dangerous country in which to drive with 165 deaths per year for every million of population. Ireland had 96 deaths while Britain, the safest, had 60. B...
DATE: May 27, 2005
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May 14, 2005
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I read with great interest “The Clay's The Thing” by Rene Hill in the Thursday, May 12, edition. I was very disappointed the reporter did not mention the Seniors Learning Centre (SLC). The Centre sponsored the C...
DATE: May 26, 2005
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Last week another young man lost his life on Bermuda's roads.
Cue the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth. Cue the politicians, pleading with us to slow down. Cue the columnists, bemoaning the state of our driving. Cue the public demands for somethin...
DATE: May 26, 2005
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There are times when even the most overused of overused clich?s must be invoked, so here goes: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
On Friday the PLP Government showed their true intentions and went simultaneously for absolute power an...
DATE: May 25, 2005
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This is the text of Walton Brown Jr.'s submission entitled at the United Nations Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonisation in Canouan, St Vincent and the Grenadines
Mr. Chairman, the Special Committee has been examining the important issues relati...
DATE: May 25, 2005
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Walton Brown
When Bermuda Day was first envisioned in the wake of the 1977 Riots and the Pitt Commission that followed, it was seen as a way of bringing Bermuda together and helping to end the racial divisions that lay at the heart of the disturbances. Clearly, o...
DATE: May 25, 2005
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May 12, 2005
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I had the opportunity to be present on April 28, when members of your Bermuda Independence Commission met with a group of senior citizens at Bermuda College.
I found the session interesting and somewhat informative, though I wa...
DATE: May 23, 2005
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There's a certain irony in the notion that on the same day that Premier Alex Scott took a formal step towards increasing the salaries of Ministers and MPs that the House of Assembly should be the scene of the worst kind of parliamentary behaviour.
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DATE: May 23, 2005
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Real, constant danger
May 18, 2005
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“The picture also shows the reality of road accidents in a way that words never can.”
I am of two minds when I see the distressing picture of the aftermath of Mr. Eugene Christopher's horrific crash. On th...
DATE: May 21, 2005
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ast Thursday, St. Brendan's Hospital was renamed the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute.
It was a stroke of genius. For years, people have struggled to find a way to remove the stigma of mental illness. Governments and mental health professionals have t...
DATE: May 19, 2005
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