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All modern political democracies are built on a system of checks and balances and Bermuda is no exception.
But while the principle of "checks and balances" usually refers to the separation of powers between branches of government, the PLP Cabinet see...
DATE: Apr 21, 2005
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Derek Smith last week raised several important issues regarding young Bermudians' education and career planning.
Some students choose degrees based on their universities' course curricula without considering whether they will be able to pursue a care...
DATE: Apr 21, 2005
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‘Universal significance'
April 15, 2005
Dear Sir,
‘Peace and Love Patch Adams' letter to the Editor (March 31) suggests that CURE's annual March 21st Commemoration Ceremony is a memorial for the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and cites many other examp...
DATE: Apr 20, 2005
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So far, Finance Minister Paula Cox seems to have been as good as her word over the investigation into the management of the Island's public pension funds.
By requiring chairman of the Public Funds Investment Committee, Calvin White, to take a leave o...
DATE: Apr 20, 2005
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Holding us back
April 8, 2005
Dear Sir,
I thank you for affording me the opportunity to give my opinion in the paper. I am a Bermudian studying abroad in university, but I read The Royal Gazette online as often as possible. I often am provoked into d...
DATE: Apr 19, 2005
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Shadow Seniors Minister Louise Jackson?s call for Government to pay 100 percent of seniors? needs under the Hospital Insurance Plan will have struck a receptive chord among the many seniors who are suffering in ?quiet poverty?.
Nonetheless, it is unl...
DATE: Apr 19, 2005
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Solve rental problem
April 8, 2005
Dear Sir,
It is so apparent to me, as I am sure it is to many of my fellow Bermudians, that there is a real housing crisis in Bermuda. Not a crisis of home ownership, but a crisis of finding real and affordable hous...
DATE: Apr 18, 2005
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It is always dangerous to throw stones when you live in a glass house - and The Royal Gazette has plenty of glass to go around - but it would seem that the Bermuda Broadcasting Company erred when it showed graphic images of the two bodies at Abbot's ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2005
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Crossing the law
April 8, 2005
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I must say that I was very upset at the verdict handed down on the driver who took that young girl?s life.
It was amazing how the law was overridden by the law. If you ask how, let me remind you: Many years ag...
DATE: Apr 16, 2005
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My warm welcome
April 11, 2005
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A few letters to the Editor have appeared concerned that the venues for the BIC public meetings were ill-chosen. One writer even felt his wife and daughter might be unsafe in such surroundings.
I attended the ...
DATE: Apr 15, 2005
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