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The row over Government polling people on what they think of the performance of Alex Scott is just the latest in a growing list of examples of the erosion of Government integrity and ethics.
That the list keeps growing is bad enough; what's worse is ...
DATE: Jan 28, 2005
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My thoughts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. instantly create reenactments of his famous speech ?I Have a Dream?. I am the person in his dream. What does his legacy mean to me? Equality, justice and freedom. It was his message that universally touched ...
DATE: Jan 28, 2005
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Last week, Minister of Tourism Dr. Ewart Brown delivered a speech in which he outlined the Government's plan for reviving Bermuda's tourist industry.
On the whole, it was a good speech that suggested the Minister has thought seriously about the issue...
DATE: Jan 28, 2005
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Finance Minister Paula Cox and Attorney General Larry Mussenden deserve credit for announcing plans to move on delinquent taxpayers and pension contributors. The bill for those, largely employers, who are 90 days behind now stands at $37 million, an ...
DATE: Jan 28, 2005
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Dear Sir,
On January 19, my dear friend was taken to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital by ambulance suffering from pain in her back. Recently she returned from six months fighting Hodgkin's lymphoma at the Lahey Clinic in Boston.
She underwent a ...
DATE: Jan 28, 2005
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More than most civil servants, the public affairs officers in the Department of Communication and Information have to take enormous care that they do not cross the fine line between presenting and explaining the Government's policies and promoting th...
DATE: Jan 26, 2005
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Inquest did its job
January 21, 2004
Dear Sir,
I was disturbed to read Matthew Taylor?s article on lawyer Elizabeth Christopher?s comments on the recent inquest into the death of Gladys Smith. To suggest that ?policies were needed? or that some sort ...
DATE: Jan 26, 2005
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January 19, 2004
Dear Sir,
I hate the idea of having to respond to your columnist Christian Dunleavy once again, but I must. The rest of Bermuda can let his remarks regarding members of this Government go unchallenged, but I in all conscience cannot....
DATE: Jan 25, 2005
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The news that the fire at Tynes Bay Incinerator was probably deliberately set on Christmas Day should concern the whole community.
Although Government stated that neither the plant nor the nearby homes were at risk, it is obvious that had the winds b...
DATE: Jan 25, 2005
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No dreams of dictatorship
January 18, 2004
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I really liked Mr. Cracknell's letter because it reaches out and shakes the issue of political ambition. He clearly lays out the issue in terms I have heard many people bandying without expressing ...
DATE: Jan 24, 2005
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