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As expected, both parties' general election platforms are handing out a good deal to the public.
Today's editorial looks at the Progressive Labour Party's platform. Tomorrow's will examine the United Bermuda Party's.
Certainly, the PLP platform tackl...
DATE: Dec 11, 2007
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The December 18 general election hangs in the balance says Renee Webb who believes there will be a few surprises on election night.
And this time around people will be taking a harder look at the parties rather than just voting on race lines, said th...
DATE: Dec 10, 2007
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Just a week ago, this newspaper condemned the negativity of the current campaign, which has seen nasty e-mails, unfair attacks in fundraising letters, push polling and now negative advertising.
That's too bad, because the Island faces problems which ...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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An important unspoken issue in the forthcoming election is that Bermuda is not integrated in any meaningful sense. Most Bermudians will have no contact with members of another race as long as it is possible to avoid such contact.
Some Bermudians are ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2007
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Two weeks to go in the election campaign and for the first time I'm close to speechless. That's not because a lot hasn't been going on – it has – but so much of it has been so hysterically shrill and mean-spirited.
Five weeks into the seven week camp...
DATE: Dec 06, 2007
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Former Premier Alex Scott's comments on Friday in the Bermuda Sun may have been cryptic, but the message surely was not: Premier Dr. Ewart Brown should watch his back.
To be sure, the recent history of the leadership of the Progressive Labour Party i...
DATE: Dec 03, 2007
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Opposition leader Michael Dunkley has questioned whether the Progressive Labour Party was about to mislead voters in a second successive election after former leader Alex Scott said a close vote could see Premier Ewart Brown being dumped.
It comes a ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2007
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When the Progressive Labour Party unveiled its slate of candidates a few weeks ago, former Premier Jennifer Smith warned that the General Election was likely to turn nasty.
She was right, although her likely inference that the nastiness was likely to...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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This election, as reported recently, will be remembered as the one in which Bermuda truly entered the Internet age, with websites, e-mail, blogs, Facebook, YouTube and the like playing a major role in advertising and campaigning.
It seems unlikely th...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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DATE: Nov 27, 2007
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