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Currently, Bermuda's gambling industry is restricted to small operators engaging in just about every gambling activity in existence. Hence, the issue is not about whether or not gambling should be legalised but whether it should be conducted on a sca...
DATE: May 06, 2004
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April 24, 2004
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Under the caption, "Democracy and Independence", in the April 21 , a proponent argues: "You can't have one without the other."
A logical extension of that premise is this: If democracy can't exist without independence, every ...
DATE: May 05, 2004
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Lyall Hall, who has been billed as an expert on gambling, a partner with KPMG Toronto and who claims to have worked on casino projects around the world, grossly misrepresented the facts when he spoke at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon last week and ...
DATE: May 05, 2004
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Bermuda?s taxi industry seems headed for another summer of discontent with the Ministry of Transport and the owners and drivers unlikely to compromise over plans to introduce a GPS-based dispatch system.
Neither side come out of this issue very well....
DATE: May 04, 2004
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The shocking images of pollution at Morgan's Point in the Mid-Ocean News on April 23 must have been as welcome at the Cabinet Office as the photos of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq were at the White House. Issues of this magnitude are much e...
DATE: May 04, 2004
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April 25, 2004
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I read today in your paper that BF&M may cancel coverage for shore front properties considered to be at higher risk as a result of the Fabian experience, or else raise premiums in general across the boar...
DATE: May 04, 2004
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It is a total mystery why it is taking so long to appoint a new Director of Tourism.
As John Harvey from the Bermuda Hotel Association said in yesterday?s newspaper, the post has now been vacant since last November when Judith Hall Bean moved to the ...
DATE: May 04, 2004
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Since US President George W. Bush's announcement of “mission accomplished” in Iraq this time a year ago, premature declarations of victory over just about anything have been thin on the ground, and rightly so.
Apparently the dangers of doing so never...
DATE: May 03, 2004
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The Bank of Bermuda's announcement this week that it is lowering interest rates on loans and mortgages does seem to suggest that its takeover by HSBC Plc. can pay dividends in the local market.
So far, the Island's other lending institutions response...
DATE: May 03, 2004
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Anyone who decides to start collecting books has this basic decision to make - which author, or authors, am I going to concentrate on? It does not work well to collect anything you happen to see that's worth collecting, because it won't be long befor...
DATE: May 03, 2004
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