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The long wait home
May 1, 2004
Dear Sir,
I saw the letter in today's paper and thought perhaps I'll send in mine as I too felt the life being sucked out of me in the Customs line.
My US Airways flight landed around 12.30 p.m. - I didn't leave the Air...
DATE: May 11, 2004
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The release of the review into the management of the prisons service, or more accurately, the Department of Corrections, on Friday has confirmed what most people have known for some time.
The service and its leadership are a mess.
The review goes fur...
DATE: May 11, 2004
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April 28, 2004
Dear Sir,
I read with great interest your piece on bringing gambling to Bermuda.
I must tell you up front that I am one of the annual visitors that relishes the laid back, quaint style that Bermuda offers. Having said that, I have a fe...
DATE: May 10, 2004
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For some years now, there has been debate about whether Bermuda has reached a point in its development where further growth is simply not possible because of strains on the infrastructure.
There was a good deal of talk in the 1980s about ?zero growth...
DATE: May 10, 2004
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Alejandro Jodorowsky, who is a Chilean film director, tried to find his path by studying Zen Buddhism.
“On one occasion,” he wrote, “I asked my Zen master, Ejo Takata: ‘Why do you tie your belt like that?' He replied: ‘So my pants don't fall down.' “...
DATE: May 10, 2004
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Criticising the critic
May 6, 2004
Dear Sir,
diminishes itself by engaging Andrew Trimingham to review the National Gallery's Biennial exhibition (May 5).
Mr. Trimingham's childish and inane review reads like a lifelong Perry Como listener responding...
DATE: May 10, 2004
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It's time to eat some crow. Tuesday's editorial contained an error with regard to just how many distributors of taxi equipment there are for the central dispatch service.
Two distributors, Advanced Tech Solutions and Telecom, have both been approved ...
DATE: May 07, 2004
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It is good news that the Department of Education is investigating the qualifications of Ministry official Abdallah Ahad.
The investigation, sparked by a story in The Bermuda Sun which threw doubt on his claims that he had studied at a series of Ameri...
DATE: May 07, 2004
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April 21, 2004
Dear Sir,
Over the past week a number of television programmes have dealt with a subject that has become a cause for growing concern in the United States. The term used for the behaviour exhibited is "Brothers on the Down-Low" or the "...
DATE: May 07, 2004
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April 22, 2004
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I know the Bermudian magazine is coming out shortly with their annual "awards of excellence".
Would anyone consider also publishing "worst" service awards? Holding for five minutes or more on a "customer service" line seems t...
DATE: May 06, 2004
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