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Premier Alex Scott has pretty much delivered on his promise of forming a Bermuda Independence Commission that broadly reflects the community.
The 14-strong group roughly matches the racial make-up of the Island's Bermudian population and has a number...
DATE: Dec 20, 2004
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Many people in the community today are shocked that the man who impregnated a 12-year-old girl has only been jailed for three years.
It is even more surprising that the Crown has decided not to appeal the sentence.
Assistant Justice Carlisle Greaves ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2004
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December 16, 2004
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Imagine being a good looking 24-year-old man, planning a night out with your girl and your friends. Then think about how you would feel if you went to the door of the newest nightclub on the Island during the week of their...
DATE: Dec 17, 2004
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It is almost always redundant to say that a person's death is tragic, but the death of mother of two Raquel Clarke Wilson may well have been unnecessary.
Mrs. Wilson, who was 36, had been waiting for a kidney transplant for several years. Had a donor...
DATE: Dec 17, 2004
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Workers deserve better
December 2, 2004
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It is wonderful that our Finance Minister Paula Cox acknowledges that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly with full recognition that every human being is entitled to ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2004
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Civil servants and other government employees should be feeling nervous this week following news about the financial state of their pension fund. But taxpayers should be frightened.
That's because their pension scheme, the Public Service Superannuati...
DATE: Dec 16, 2004
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Drugs in schools
December 10, 2004
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I just finished reading Stuart Hayward's article in today's Bermuda Sun, on “drug-sniffing dogs in schools” and I found him to be a bit contradicting at times.
To say that the issue is not one of clear rig...
DATE: Dec 15, 2004
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The Opposition United Bermuda Party is right to be demanding more answers on the Patrice Minors affair.
There may be a perfectly reasonable explanation for the fact that her father, Kingsley Francis, received a home at Ferguson Park when he was being...
DATE: Dec 14, 2004
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Thank you, Bermuda
December 1, 2004
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May I, through the medium of your excellent newspaper, say a very sincere “thank you” to everybody on your beautiful Island for the kindness and friendliness that I have experienced over the last eight ye...
DATE: Dec 14, 2004
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The opposition United Bermuda Party on Friday more or less admitted that it was powerless to stop passage in the House of Assembly of amendments to the Employment Act, including the deletion of the controversial ?opt-out? clause on mandatory time-and...
DATE: Dec 13, 2004
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