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If a crane falls in Bermuda
March 7, 2005
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Near the centre of a major building site stood a 100-foot high crane with a boom which could reach the furthest extremity of the site. The foreman ordered one of his workmen named Horton to operate ...
DATE: Mar 09, 2005
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The introduction of speed cameras on Bermuda's roads came a step closer last week when Minister of Labour, Home Affairs and Public Safety, Randy Horton, announced that $100,000 has been put aside for them this year.
The standard of driving in Bermuda...
DATE: Mar 09, 2005
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When civil servants were granted a 4.5 percent annual salary increase last year, there were concerns that this would be a benchmark for other raises, and could have an effect on inflation.
Finance Minister Paula Cox dismissed the fears, and said Gove...
DATE: Mar 08, 2005
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February 10, 2005
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I wish to state that there is no such thing as an African Diaspora Heritage Trail.
In 2002 David Allen initiated in Bermuda an African Heritage Trail Conference, which was hailed as a success. David Allen should have known...
DATE: Mar 07, 2005
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Bermuda's good fortune in being made the centrepiece of Old Navy's spring advertising campaign should not be underestimated.
This is publicity that money can buy, but it is much better when someone else is spending it. Better yet, there is no taint o...
DATE: Mar 07, 2005
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Washington think tank the Council for Hemispheric Affairs has been both lionised and shredded for its analysis of Bermuda's Independence debate.
The analysis, which came out in January, has been seen as either a clear-sighted look at the issues from ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2005
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Tilson decision a sad day
February 28, 2005
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Clearly the wrong person is being told to leave.
The Bishop, if he really believes in what he preaches, should be asking others to look at Canon Tilson and borrow from his expertise as to how to c...
DATE: Mar 02, 2005
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Housing Minister Ashfield DeVent deserves credit for at long last putting a meaningful public housing programme on the table.
Last year, the Minister gave a fine impression during the Budget Debate of a man who had just had a bomb thrown into his han...
DATE: Mar 02, 2005
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On Friday, the United Bermuda Party responded to the Budget presented by Finance Minister Paula Cox JP MP. I wondered how the Opposition would attack a budget which, in my view, did all that a budget is supposed to do.
The 2005 budget is the financia...
DATE: Mar 02, 2005
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One of the things that I disliked about living in London was the fact that you could go shopping on a Sunday.
The trouble with this was that my wife loves to shop. Unless I could come up with something else for us to do, I would often find myself spe...
DATE: Mar 02, 2005
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