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Almost two weeks have passed since Renee Webb threw in the towel, with Cup Match serving as a useful distraction from the soap opera. But her resignation shouldn?t obscure the fact that no one has yet accepted responsibility for the handling of the S...
DATE: Aug 03, 2004
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July 28, 2004
Dear Sir,
I write to you following our telephone conversation to you of this morning in which I took objection to the headline of the story published in your paper on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 entitled ?UBP?s Moniz takes aim at new judge K...
DATE: Aug 03, 2004
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Cup Match is over for another year, and has thankfully passed without a violent incident. After outbursts of violence at White Hill Field and at Wellington Oval in the last 12 months, there is reason to be happy that this holiday passed without a maj...
DATE: Aug 03, 2004
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I've been reading Lynne Truss's book, 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves', and it has inspired me to do a little holding forth of my own - although more on grammar than on punctuation.
In truth, all books about grammar and punctuation make me a little nervous. I...
DATE: Aug 02, 2004
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It cuts both ways
July 21, 2004
Dear Sir,
I would like to send a message out to the young boys of Bermuda.
I am going to try my best to word this message in a simple realistic way.
Girls having sex ? Under Age:
The young girls and boys today are havi...
DATE: Aug 02, 2004
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Tomorrow marks the playing of Cup Match, Bermuda's annual two-day holiday when the Island's best cricketers battle for bragging rights between St. George's and Somerset.
But the holiday means much more than that.
It was begun by rival Masonic lodges ...
DATE: Jul 28, 2004
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In October of last year, I wrote a column about the beginning of the Niger yellowcake controversy, in which, among other things, the White House was accused of identifying a functioning Central Intelligence Agency agent, contrary to American law.
Yel...
DATE: Jul 27, 2004
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It's the oldest trick in the book.
If you don't like what you're hearing, shoot the messenger.
That is what occurred in the House of Assembly on Friday when Government MPs criticised the media for the round of bad news it has been getting lately.
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DATE: Jul 27, 2004
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This could not have been how Premier Alex Scott planned to celebrate the first anniversary of the Progressive Labour Party's re-election and his own election as leader of the party and therefore Premier.
Instead of basking in the year's accomplishmen...
DATE: Jul 23, 2004
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An open letter to cabbies
July 15, 2004
Dear Sir,
Everyone knows someone that has been struggling with this issue ? whether for, against or indifferent. On July 14 the GPS bill was given a hiatus. Many of the sentiments apply regardless of whether yo...
DATE: Jul 23, 2004
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