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The way we behave behind the wheels of our vehicles says a lot about the direction in which Bermuda is heading.
Aggressive muscling to the front of the traffic queue, forcing of other vehicles to the side, cutting across the centreline or chronic dou...
DATE: Oct 20, 2004
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To the life boats?
September 24, 2004
Dear Sir,
You provide Calvin Smith's slippery pen with a weekly forum in your pages. I was shocked at his opinion piece headlined "An unusual opportunity". In it he presumed much and said little beyond the though...
DATE: Oct 20, 2004
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It is a perfectly human and compassionate reaction to the deaths on livery cycles of two visitors in the last two weeks to want to do something ? anything ? to prevent any more deaths.
Two families have been shattered by these events. And while all l...
DATE: Oct 19, 2004
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October 8, 2004
Dear Sir,
Once again I find myself writing on this subject, today in response to Dee Charles? comments in . It is morally reprehensible that she threatens to put her horses down should she and other carriage operat...
DATE: Oct 19, 2004
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October 8, 2004
Dear Sir,
Re: story headlined "LOM accused of fraud" that was published in the October 8, 2004 edition of
I would like to comment on the part of the above article that stated: "The spokesman said that a few months ago Mr. Marchant rep...
DATE: Oct 18, 2004
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The axiom "justice delayed is justice denied" is a good principle for any court system to uphold.
That's why Chief Justice Richard Ground's call last week for a third criminal court should not go unheeded.
Mr. Justice Ground, in a speech to Sandys Ro...
DATE: Oct 18, 2004
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Recently, Dr. Melvyn Bassett caused quite a stir by suggesting that the marked increase in enrolment in private schools is resulting in de facto segregation in the public school system. Dr. Bassett concluded that if the drift towards private school e...
DATE: Oct 16, 2004
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School principal Mr Melvyn Bassett was right to point out the potential for social conflict arising from the re-segregation of Bermuda's schools in his recent speech to the Rotary Club. What is also needed is an understanding of why so many parents d...
DATE: Oct 16, 2004
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A warning from a father
October 6, 2004
Dear Sir,
I write this letter out of concern for our children, thank you for allowing me to express my concerns, over a very sensitive matter. I am pleased to hear that John (Chalky) White (a policeman) was fou...
DATE: Oct 15, 2004
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One of the more bizarre sights to have appeared in recently was of a sign near the entrance to the Whitney Institute on Middle Road in Smith?s Parish.
The sign, rightly, urges drivers to slow down as they approach the zebra crossing to the bus stop o...
DATE: Oct 15, 2004
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