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CAN it actually get any worse than it is? Bermuda's inability to uphold the checks and balances of a functioning democracy have been picked up by overseas media and we look pretty incompetent. I refer, of course, to the Auditor General's office fiasc...
DATE: Jul 07, 2006
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WITH the latest flare-up of violence between the Palestinians and the state of Israel, we are once again seeing a modern version of the Indian wars that took place on the North American continent in the 19th century when settlers of European descent ...
DATE: Jul 07, 2006
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June 23, 2006THERE are other ways of trying to “Keep up with the Joneses” or copying others which are just as destructive as those commented on this week by your columnist Alvin Williams. Recently, President George Bush once again reminded Americans ...
DATE: Jul 07, 2006
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PREMIER Alex Scott has been charged with dishing out honours to members of an under-fire organisation in a bid to shore up their credibility.
Last month 11 members of the Bermuda Independence Commission were granted Queen?s Certificates and Badges of...
DATE: Jul 07, 2006
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Today in HistoryTODAY is Tuesday, July 4, the 185th day of 2006. There are 180 days left in the year. This is Independence Day.
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In 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
In 1934, Marie Curie, Polish-Frenc...
DATE: Jul 04, 2006
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Thousands of residents enjoyed Saturday's Independence Day celebrations at Moresby Plain, Dockyard. Photo by Chris Burville
DATE: Jul 03, 2006
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Early showers did not stop over 4,000 people from celebrating Independence Day at Moresby Plain, Dockyard on Saturday.
A spectacular 30-minute fireworks display ? which US Consul General Gregory Slayton called the largest ever seen in Bermuda? capped...
DATE: Jul 03, 2006
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HAVE always been loath to criticise people who have accepted a Queen's honour because I have considered that is their personal right to accept or decline such awards. However, from a personal point of view, my position would be quite clear if such an...
DATE: Jun 30, 2006
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SINCE presenting its final petition of signatures to the Premier in February, pro-referendum campaign group Bermudians For Referendum has kept out of the media spotlight. The group's low profile was even noticed by Government Senator David Burch who,...
DATE: Jun 30, 2006
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A fully-fledged Independent Bermuda might retain the Queen as Head of State in the manner of 15 countries of the Commonwealth. Maintaining some link with her former colonial master even if it is merely membership of the Commonwealth of Nations of mos...
DATE: Jun 30, 2006
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