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There's no question that the recent Bermuda Jazz Festival was a hugely successful event as far as musical performances go.
Musical giants from Natalie Cole to Freddie Jackson wowed the packed crowds on all three nights.
There is some question, howeve...
DATE: Oct 21, 2003
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October is Breast Health Awareness Month and it is vital that women, especially, become more aware of the disease.
An average of 50 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year in Bermuda. Its physical effects can be fatal and even for survivor...
DATE: Oct 21, 2003
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On Friday, a Coroner's jury returned virtually the only verdict it could have in the death of prison inmate Stephen Mansfield (Pepe) Dill.
It ruled that he died almost two years ago as a result of "the absence of timely medical intervention from the ...
DATE: Oct 20, 2003
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Those who read this column closely will know that His Holiness the Pope and I sometimes do not see eye to eye.
Letting his Vatican people tell the faithful in the middle of an AIDS epidemic that condoms don't work is a case in point. But this is not ...
DATE: Oct 20, 2003
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Freedom of speech?
October 16, 2003
Dear Sir,
I am in total disagreement with the dismissal of Mr. O'Connell on the basis that he was overheard making remarks that were thought to be racially insensitive in the Bermuda College faculty lounge.
The fac...
DATE: Oct 17, 2003
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The fact that teachers who were not paid for their first month of work will get their money at the end of this week is hardly cause for celebration.
The unpaid teachers, who were hired after the beginning of the school term, and teachers with extra r...
DATE: Oct 16, 2003
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Arguments about what drug is the most dangerous tend to be circular and pointless.
There are those who will say that cocaine, or crack cocaine, is more dangerous than heroin. In the 1960s, people claimed that LSD was merely "mind-expanding" with trag...
DATE: Oct 16, 2003
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Congratulations, Mr. Eve
October 13, 2003
Dear Sir,
Hearty congratulations to Mr. Richard Eve upon his appointment as head of Tourism's overseas sales and marketing.
Not that Mr. Eve needs my endorsement, but the position is a long time coming. I not...
DATE: Oct 16, 2003
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October 13, 2003
Dear Sir:
Bermuda in my heart of hearts is home. Bermuda is a place where people work together, play together and - when the chips are down - pull together. My family lived in Bermuda for 31 years, although I moved away many years ag...
DATE: Oct 15, 2003
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It is likely that both Government and businesses would like nothing more than to have the row over work permit limits quietly disappear.
In Government's perfect world, employers would recognise that the price of prospering in Bermuda is to turn over ...
DATE: Oct 15, 2003
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