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Yesterday?s strike by taxi drivers should come as no surprise. The seeds of the action were sown when Transport Minister Ewart Brown tabled the legislation making the controversial GPS system mandatory in the House of Assembly last Friday.
Assuming t...
DATE: Jun 24, 2004
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Small minded
June 1, 2004
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Mean spirited - that is my view of the decision to exclude bronze-medalist Clarence Hill from our Hall of Fame.
Disgusting! Imagine, sitting in judgment of a world-class achiever simply because he, subsequent to wi...
DATE: Jun 23, 2004
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If you think politics in the House of Assembly are rough, you should try politics in any institution of higher education.
Try the Bermuda College. It has had more than its share in the last few years.While looking backwards can result in seeing thing...
DATE: Jun 23, 2004
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Any questions about the PLP?s position on gambling in Bermuda were cleared up late last week with the amendments to the Prohibition of Gaming Machines Act. Or were they? Only if you make the mistake of thinking that the Premier and his colleagues don...
DATE: Jun 23, 2004
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Bermuda's national football team departed from the World Cup qualifying competition on Sunday with their pride intact, even though all of the players will no doubt look back at what might have been.
If players like Shaun Goater and Kyle Lightbourne h...
DATE: Jun 22, 2004
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Planning disaster
June 17, 2004
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Bermuda, wake up! Turn to page 97 of the May/June issue of The Bottom Line magazine and see what cute, quaint little Reid Street East is going to look like when the foreign developers get finished with it. Su...
DATE: Jun 22, 2004
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It is good news that the Government is taking the collection of pension and payroll taxes seriously after all. Finance Minister Paula Cox?s defence of her Ministry on Friday showed that efforts to pursue debtors have been ramped up in the last couple...
DATE: Jun 22, 2004
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Blown off course?
June 7, 2004
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Two cheers for Freisenbruch-Meyer! Finally, their 2004 hurricane chart puts Bermuda back where it belongs.
Why only two cheers, you may ask? Well I am saving the third for next year when, hopefully, Miami is r...
DATE: Jun 21, 2004
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The facts of Yukio Mishima's death are not in dispute. Very early on the day he died, he completed and addressed to his publisher the final chapter of the fourth and last book of ‘The Sea of Fertility'. (The title refers to the moon's Sea of Fertili...
DATE: Jun 21, 2004
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Premier Alex Scott singled out The Royal Gazette's position on gambling in his statements on the ban on gaming machines on Friday saying this newspaper had “let its hair down” on the issue.
What that means is anyone's guess, but this newspaper's edit...
DATE: Jun 21, 2004
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