TODAY, the word colonialism is usually used in a derogatory sense, denoting that a powerful nation has taken over or infiltrated a weaker nation exploiting their backward people and natural resources.Such exploitation in no way whatsoever applies to ...
TODAY, the word colonialism is usually used in a derogatory sense, denoting that a powerful nation has taken over or infiltrated a weaker nation exploiting their backward people and natural resources.
Such exploitation in no way whatsoever applies to...
I hope Government might just hear what Mr. Gilbert has to say
December 26, 2005
I AM not trying to monopolise your Letters to the Editor column, but I was so very gratified to see the letter from Guilden Gilbert, Jr. (Mid-Ocean News, December 23) bec...
AS is customary at year's end, I am going to look back in this Commentary at the events that dominated the news in 2005. In the Bermuda context, the leading news item for the year was actually something of a non-event. That might sound like a contrad...
2005 will be remembered as one of the most tumultuous years ever for business with virtually every sector coming through 12 months marked by upheaval and change.
Insurance
The Island?s economic pillar ? insurance and reinsurance ? was thrown numerous...
Top ten for 2005
December 12, 2005
Dear Sir,
Here are my top ten PLP moves of the year (some may stretch back a bit):
10. Prince Andrew?s ?300 houses in 30 years? comment ? well, at least they realised that it didn?t require a correction.
9. Berkeley...
Heartfelt appreciation
December 9, 2005
Dear Jonathan,
Recognising that the KEMH appears to get more than its fair share of bad press, I thought it might be appropriate to drop you a short note to help in a small way to redress the balance.
Until las...
Weapon to everyone
December 17, 2005
Dear Sir,
It seems to have occurred to no one that the absence of sexual orientation in our human rights protections is a weapon available to everyone, not only to unchristian bigots who like to vent their hatred ...
A dual solutionDecember 6, 2005Dear Sir, The headline in The Royal Gazette of December 5 that drugs are “affordable and available” leads me to make the following two suggestions:
1. Ask those in charge of housing policy to be drug dealers. With their...
It is a sure sign that the festive season is upon us ? along with the ever-rolling passage of time ? when another edition of ?Woppend? appears on the bookshelves. Thus it is that the seventeenth edition of Peter Woolcock?s annual collection of cartoo...
