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Debate - not rhetoric
February 20, 2004
Dear Sir,
I'd like to address a cluster of letters that I've read in recent online editions of your paper, particularly the commentary of Dr. Amenemhet Tamerry.
Before I go any farther, I'd like to announce my ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2004
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Finance Minister Paula Cox spent some time in her Budget Statement on Friday noting the success of the Bermuda economy, and rightly so.
It has proven to be remarkably robust, weathering the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a global recession and...
DATE: Feb 24, 2004
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February 18, 2004
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Talk about speaking out of both sides of your mouth at once. Back last October, some of the rent paying residents of Prospect were apparently given notice that within several months they would be required to move, as build...
DATE: Feb 23, 2004
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Temporary measure?
February 17, 2004
Dear Sir,
So, at long last, Government is about to begin repairs to the Hamilton Police Station. Your readers may be unaware of, and may like to know, the following: When the Hamilton Police Station moved to its p...
DATE: Feb 20, 2004
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Finance Minister Paula Cox delivers her first Budget today and there is every reason to believe that it will be tougher than those of recent years.
Indeed, her late father, Eugene Cox, delivered two "election budgets" in a row, which served their pur...
DATE: Feb 20, 2004
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There is plenty of blame to go around for the latest work to rule by Government bus drivers and garbage collectors.
There also seem to be plenty of people refusing to accept any responsibility at all, from the Bermuda Industrial Union to a variety of...
DATE: Feb 19, 2004
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Enforce the law
February 9, 2004
Dear Sir,
I read today in your newspaper a letter by ‘Retired Police Officer' in Smith's Parish under the heading ‘Thinking about bike safety'. It probably should have been ‘Child safety on bikes', but no matter.
Firs...
DATE: Feb 19, 2004
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series on people with learning differences should be required reading for anyone concerned with education and with ensuring that young Bermudians are fully equipped to enter the economy.
The lesson that comes through loud and clear that is writing ch...
DATE: Feb 19, 2004
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In his novel ?1984?, George Orwell coined the phrase ?newspeak? to describe how governments say one thing when they mean the opposite. Thus the Ministry of Truth in charge of lies.
On Friday, residents of Mary Victoria Road and Alexandra Road in Pros...
DATE: Feb 18, 2004
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What about the war?
February 9, 2004
Dear Sir,
There was a big uproar in the US this past week because artist Janet Jackson bared her breast on television. The shock, the horror, the outrage.
Yet the silence is deafening over the way the US was misle...
DATE: Feb 18, 2004
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