A dual solution
December 6, 2005
Dear Sir,
The headline in 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 Olympic level o...
HSBC: Don?t be misled
December 1, 2005
Dear Sir,
Your columnist Mr. Dunleavy has suggested that if HSBC continues to abuse Bermuda we should all bank elsewhere. That would be a good suggestion with most businesses but it would not work with HSBC.
Thi...
SEASON'S Greetings! Have you seen the people shopping this month? Not me! I'm not doing Christmas this way this year. This year, instead of buying material things that will be discarded by New Year's Day; I'm giving the gift of myself and my time. Sp...
December 6, 2005
Dear Sir,
After reading the first two articles in your ?Hell in Paradise? series, I?m still not sure what the Hell you?re referring to is.
While at first glance it would seem that you?re talking about the so-called plague of drugs bu...
A Government MP in the UK said the conscription policy of the Bermuda Regiment amounted to gender discrimination and violated the European convention on human rights.
During a debate on the Armed Forces Bill in the House of Commons on Monday, Labour ...
Four suspended Policemen, two ousted prison officers and a sick fireman have netted almost three quarters of a million dollars in salaries and pay-offs between them.
The figure was revealed yesterday by Randolph Horton, Minister of Labour, Home Affai...
Courageous Webb deserves praise for gay amendment
December 4, 2005,
IT was impressive to note that Renée Webb has so much more courage than does the lily-livered Dale Butler. I used to have a certain amount of respect for Dale butler, but no longer....
Bermuda insurance company Allied World Assurance Company is ending an agreement under which it out-sourced certain functions to its largest shareholder, American International Group Inc.
The agreement, under which AIG staff were contracted to do AWAC...
Seeing the awful light(s)
November 26, 2005
Dear Sir,
It's great to see that there is $11 million for cricket and $35,000 for a ministerial parking spot, but we've been using the same chipped up Christmas lights since the 1970s. Anybody visiting the ...
New anti-drug supremo Wayne Perinchief has called for mandatory drug testing of MPs ? despite his own party?s reluctance to embrace the issue.
In his first major interview since being appointed to head the new National Drug Control Ministry he urged ...
