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February 17, 2003
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Please allow me to correct a few errors contained in Progressive Labour Party Senator Calvin Smith's recent letter, in which he attempts to justify racial insults he made in the Senate. When Senator Smith complained "You u...
DATE: Feb 20, 2003
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One year ago, in the 2002 Budget Statement, Finance Minister Eugene Cox announced that Government would look into launching an unemployment insurance scheme and had set aside $1 million for the purpose.
A year later, little has changed except that th...
DATE: Feb 20, 2003
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Slowly but surely, things are starting to go right in education.
For the past two weeks, The Royal Gazette has been publishing stories based on an interview with Minister Paula Cox on some of the new initiatives underway in public schools.
And much o...
DATE: Feb 20, 2003
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Friday's Budget Statement, while generally full of good news for taxpayers, will have brought little real joy for those involved in the tourism industry.
While Minister Renee Webb has unveiled a new tourism campaign that has been generally well recei...
DATE: Feb 19, 2003
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17th February 2003
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The importance of what happened this weekend in Bermuda and around the world cannot be understated. Not only did millions of people of different nationalities, religions and races come together to call for peace, they did...
DATE: Feb 19, 2003
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February 16, 2003
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After 11 years of those who love peace insisting that economic sanctions would work, over a half million Iraq children are dead from starvation and lack of medical care.
After 11 years of inspections and feckless attempts ...
DATE: Feb 18, 2003
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Once upon a time there was a major school project that was awarded to a relatively untried contractor with the aim of spreading work and opportunity around to businesses that normally were cut out of major projects.
The project was not without contro...
DATE: Feb 18, 2003
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If I had to choose the most interesting human I have ever met, somewhere up near the top of the list would be an elderly, rather grave taxi driver in Rome.
I forgot his name very quickly, and he is probably no longer with us, given the staggeringly e...
DATE: Feb 17, 2003
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February 14, 2003
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Another day in the asylum... today's paper blares out the news that our justice system is completely failing and that the Berkeley Project already has collapsed. At least the Governor has the guts ...
DATE: Feb 17, 2003
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This week's walkout by Government blue collar workers in support of airport firefighters marked a new low in Bermuda labour relations.
As noted by Home Affairs Minister Terry Lister, the strike was illegal and should not have occurred.
The action was...
DATE: Feb 17, 2003
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