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"In Bermuda you have got money running out the gazoo and a serious problem of poverty housing but it is not one that is unsolvable. A place like Bermuda should have no sub-standard housing."
Those were the words of Habitat for Humanity founder Millar...
DATE: May 28, 2004
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May 20, 2004
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I am writing in reference to the current dispute between the BUT and the Government. I don't agree with the way Government is treating the teachers because what they are doing to them seems unfair. If the teachers do decide to ...
DATE: May 27, 2004
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The housing problem rightly deserves the media attention it is getting. Housing is a basic need and people who are forced to go without this commodity are at risk of contracting a serious disease or death.
Recently, published a front page story, ?Gov...
DATE: May 27, 2004
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Did he or didn?t he?
May 15, 2004
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I have read with fascination about this debacle over Mr. Ahad?s qualifications and indeed original representations to both the Bermuda College and now to Department of Education. Did the guy go to Cambridge...
DATE: May 27, 2004
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Teachers should be celebrating today after winning what amounts to a total capitulation by the Government on the issue of parity between civil servants and their profession.
Government had maintained that it was unfair to compare teachers, who work t...
DATE: May 27, 2004
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Picture it: It?s May 24th and you don?t have an outfit. In fact, you don?t have any clothes at all! That?s a Bermudian?s worst nightmare and exactly how the Government should have felt during Friday?s Parliamentary debate. The Emperor had no clothes,...
DATE: May 26, 2004
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Housing Minister Ashfield DeVent's defence ? if it can be called that ? in the House of Assembly of Government's performance on what is perhaps the number one issue facing Bermudians would be laughable if the issue wasn't so important.
In debate on a...
DATE: May 26, 2004
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New names for Lister
May 15, 2004
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We Bermudians are probably the best people in the world when it comes to giving nicknames. For starters, in order to give someone a suitable nickname, it should in some way reflect the person?s personality ...
DATE: May 26, 2004
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Supporting our teachers
May 20, 2004
Dear Sir,
Please allow me the use of your column to address the most recent teacher's industrial action. I am a parent of two children in the Government system and my best friend is a teacher in the public system....
DATE: May 25, 2004
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One thing I think I have absolutely right is my theory that art has no obligation to explain itself.
There isn't any point in looking at an abstract painting with an angry look on your face, demanding to be let in on the secret. There isn't one, and ...
DATE: May 25, 2004
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