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Historically, Cabinet Ministers have had the discretion to make exceptions to laws, usually when it is determined to be in the public interest.
For that reason, Ministers of the Environment have the power to vary zonings when a development like a hot...
DATE: Jul 22, 2004
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"Make It Happen". The election slogan of 1998 adorned many car bumpers, inviting Bermudians to join a movement and elect the PLP. The beauty of "Make It Happen" was its vagueness.
"It" meant whatever any potential voter wished but always with the PLP...
DATE: Jul 22, 2004
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July 6, 2004
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With regard to the current GPS controversy, I have heard with increasing frequency references made to the taxi business as "private enterprise" and that Government is poking its nose into people's "private" affairs. I could be ...
DATE: Jul 22, 2004
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Hooray for Smith
July 14, 2004
Dear Sir,
Calvin Smith must be congratulated for writing such an insightful and thought provoking opinion piece (Wednesday, July 14) of the serious flaws inherent in the new work permit policies. After careful analysis ...
DATE: Jul 21, 2004
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Did she jump or was she pushed?
That?s the question this morning after Tourism and Telecommunications Minister Renee Webb?s surprise resignation yesterday.
Ms Webb said last night that she had tried to resign twice times before but had been talked ou...
DATE: Jul 21, 2004
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Slowly, the arguments in favour of Independence are taking shape.
That?s good news, because since Premier Alex Scott announced in April that he wanted the Island to re-open the debate on Independence, there?s been precious little discussion, in part ...
DATE: Jul 20, 2004
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He often wears a little porkpie hat. With his glasses and his Van Dyke beard, he looks like the jazz pianist Thelonius Monk as a young man. Like Monk, he's deep in his own thoughts much of the time.
His name is Linton Kwesi Johnson and he's an Englis...
DATE: Jul 20, 2004
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The late Dr. John Stubbs, a long-time United Bermuda Party Cabinet Minister and a passionate observer of politics, had a saying that seems especially relevant to the current Stonington scandal: ?When you?re in a hole, stop digging.?
That is just what...
DATE: Jul 19, 2004
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Are ?pillagers? preservers?
July 12, 2004
Dear Sir,
Referring to your many articles on the recent July 4 World Marlin Tournament and the recent BDA Big Game tournament I would have thought it appropriate to emphasise that out of all the marlin proper...
DATE: Jul 16, 2004
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Yesterday's Senate vote to reject mandatory Global Positioning System equipment for the second time in two years must send a message to Government to rethink its policy.
Clearly, Government's aggressive and expensive campaigning in the last few month...
DATE: Jul 15, 2004
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