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Political pundits like to take apart by-election results and read them like tea leaves, both to assess the performance of their respective parties and to see if there are any indicators for an upcoming General Election.
Often the final result has lit...
DATE: Nov 28, 2002
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Don't be deaf, blind & dumb
November 17, 2002
Dear Sir,
I assume what touched off Renee Webb's diatribe in the House of Assembly last week about institutionalised racism is the knowledge that the PLP is going to have a very hard time impressing the v...
DATE: Nov 26, 2002
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Premier Jennifer Smith finally responded on Friday to confusion over Government's tendering and contract policies.
But her statement in the House of Assembly did little to clarify the situation and may well have confused it even more.
The confusion b...
DATE: Nov 26, 2002
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Feeling left out
November 19, 2002
Dear Sir,
This is an open letter to Minister Webb.
Ms Webb, I am not black, a woman nor Portuguese. I am a lower middle class white man. Am I now to suffer from your policies, because a few white men (who are no rel...
DATE: Nov 25, 2002
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It has been three weeks since Turkey elected an Islamic political party to be its new Government.
You'd have thought, in the light of the current walking-on-eggshells state of affairs where democracies and Islamic states are concerned, that more migh...
DATE: Nov 25, 2002
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The Auditor General's report on the state of progress - or, more accurately, the lack thereof - at the Berkeley construction site raises a number of serious questions both about Government's ability to award contracts and the contractor's ability to ...
DATE: Nov 25, 2002
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November 19, 2002
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It worries me that politicking is getting in the way of good business sense. The only reason Renee Webb has forwarded for not requesting a performance bond from the Berkeley contractor is because the UBP government did not...
DATE: Nov 22, 2002
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Premier Jennifer Smith, in written answers to Legislative Affairs Minister John Barritt, has said that Government has no intention of trying to recover the costs of her broadcast to the Country in February, in spite of the fact that the Broadcasting ...
DATE: Nov 22, 2002
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I write to share with you a development in the House of Assembly last Friday which has so far gone unreported and which, I believe, was the objective of those in the Progressive Labour Party Government who conspired to abuse Parliamentary practice an...
DATE: Nov 22, 2002
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The row this week over CedarBridge Academy sending children home for not wearing their blazers sparked a debate over a different issue entirely; the question of the new Code of Conduct for schools.
CedarBridge breached the Code when it sent the child...
DATE: Nov 22, 2002
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