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Giving a reply to a Budget in which few taxes were increased and there were no spending cuts is not the easiest task in the world. Nonetheless, Shadow Finance Minister and Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons had the job on Friday, and on the whole, he di...
DATE: Feb 28, 2005
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The world is changing
February 21, 2005
Dear Sir,
I noticed that Spain has begun the process of ratifying the new European constitution by having a referendum, something that we in Bermuda were not allowed to have for the changes made to our Constitu...
DATE: Feb 25, 2005
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Today's column by William Raspberry raises a number of crucial points about education.
And while the column is directed at US schools, the same philosophy can and should be applied to Bermuda, especially as the Budget debate gets underway.
Finance Mi...
DATE: Feb 22, 2005
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Airport problems
February 17, 2005
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Once again we are hearing excuses for the delays at the Airport in the Immigration/Customs Hall. From what I heard on the newscast this week, the arrival of three flights ? Air Canada, American Airlines an...
DATE: Feb 22, 2005
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Deal with housing first
February 17, 2005
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Please allow me space to express my thoughts and in part respond to Guilden M. Gilbert Jr. You say that you will only debate facts Mr. Gilbert. Well I would like to know what facts you could present...
DATE: Feb 21, 2005
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Friday?s Budget was Finance Minister Paula Cox?s second, but the first for which she had full responsibility.
On the whole, there was very little to complain about in her Budget and quite a lot to praise. This was largely because the Government benef...
DATE: Feb 21, 2005
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Give KEMH a chance
January 27, 2005
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Under normal circumstances I would not write about comments made in your section in however, after statements made recently about Mrs. Gladys Smith and other negative comments, I feel that I must. I have...
DATE: Feb 19, 2005
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Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers around the world:
Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, on the Kyoto Protocol:
While much hope is being pinned on the Kyoto Protocol, much remains undone. Although the target of reducing greenhouse gases has already be...
DATE: Feb 19, 2005
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During its term in opposition, the UBP has launched an unrelenting attack on the PLP government. The attacks pose as information but they are really propaganda.
By propaganda, I refer to a systematic, widespread, deliberate attempt to indoctrinate Be...
DATE: Feb 19, 2005
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Once again, this newspaper and ? no doubt ? the Ministry of the Environment are being bombarded with objections to plans to build a dolphin park at Sinky Bay in Southampton.
The application by Martin and Lynn Hassell was rejected by the Development A...
DATE: Feb 18, 2005
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