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...
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...
