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Thousands of convicts worked on it. At one time it provided 15 percent of all income in Bermuda and it was a symbol of British power.
Now 200 years since British sailors moved into the Royal Naval Dockyard and it became a strategic port to withstand ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2010
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Inequality before the law
February 3, 2010
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The renewed debate about Bermuda's Human Rights Act presents an opportunity to reflect on the words of Bayard Rustin. Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr.'s mentor, wrote:
"(T) he job of the gay communi...
DATE: Feb 10, 2010
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A bill improving oversight of Government policies and programmes was finally passed in the House of Assembly yesterday, two months after it had to be deferred following complaints.
Premier Ewart Brown made a number of amendments to the Internal Audit...
DATE: Feb 06, 2010
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Premier Ewart Brown will return to the House of Assembly today hoping to convince his critics to pass two bills they’ve complained about in the past.
One of them — a bill to waive cabin tax on cruise ships — is understood to have previously come unde...
DATE: Feb 05, 2010
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Tim Smith
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British encyclopedia sorry for Irish history goofs
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. apologized Wednesday for mangling the history of the Irish Civil War, a longtime ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2010
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Bermuda-based Orbis Investment Management Ltd. is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the launch of its first mutual funds.
The company began operations in Bermuda and London in late 1989 with assets under management of $67 million. That figure has b...
DATE: Feb 04, 2010
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Golf path long enough
February 1, 2010
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In today's edition of The Royal Gazette, Mr. Robinson expressed his outrage over the cost of the cart path at Port Royal. Mr. Robinson freely admits "I don't know how big the pathway is but for that pr...
DATE: Feb 03, 2010
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The world is still trying to come to grips with a human tragedy on a scale usually found in history books, as global attention remains focused on the massive loss of life in Haiti, and the giant task of rebuilding from one of the most powerful earthq...
DATE: Jan 30, 2010
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Opposition to Independence reached a new height after the Queen's visit to the Island last November.
Seventy-four percent of people now do not want to break ties with the UK, according to a Research.bm survey carried out in early January, up from 66 ...
DATE: Jan 27, 2010
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Tim Smith
Those who — including this newspaper -have warned over the last few years that Bermuda is becoming less attractive to international business have constantly been branded as scaremongers and worse.
But the report by Dowling & Partners Securities LLC p...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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