January 1, 2004
Dear Sir,
As to Sunday opening and the equivalent of working seven days a week, there are times when the brain tells the body: "You go ahead. I'm taking a break."
The body insists and something and somebody gets broken. For non-stress...
Chartered accountants in Bermuda have voted in new auditor independence and professional standards requirements.
The net effect of the changes ? adopted in the interest of protecting the public ? are higher professional and ethical standards for all ...
January 4, 2003
Dear Sir,
I find it rather ironic that Bermuda recently received an award for tolerance from the UN, and then in a letter to the Editor the true colours of Bermuda are shown, those of intolerance, misunderstanding and hatred.
I refer ...
AFTER reading Sir John Swan's latest cover-the-waterfront meanderings on Bermuda's political and social culture in and the , one of the few things I found myself in agreement with was his contention that Dr. Grant Gibbons should not be leading the Un...
AM glad Mr. Peter Cooper (, January 2) is as concerned as many of us are with Ms Jessie Moniz's gratuitous article on Bermuda prices ? and her unthinking swipe at the thousands of Bermudian jobs that depend on the success of the local retailers' "Sam...
DATE: Jan 09, 2004 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
SIR John Swan complained bitterly in the aftermath of his failed 1995 Independence referendum bid and subsequent resignation as Premier that he did not get as much as an invitation for a cup of tea from his erstwhile political colleagues.
By the time...
January 6, 2004
Dear Sir,
I am writing as an outside observer concerning the issue of Sunday shopping.
When I first visited Bermuda in 1992 I was taken aback by the regular business hours of your stores. I remember trying to buy some flowers outside ...
A new science fiction series on the Bermuda Triangle aims to ?make kids scared again?.
?X-Men? and ?The Usual Suspects? director Bryan Singer is producing an eight-hour Sci Fi Channel mini-series about the Bermuda Triangle, claims Sci Fi Wire, the sp...
January 3, 2003
Dear Sir,
Re: 'Panto was perverted', January 2, 2004.
As a non-Christian I had always believed the central tenets of the Christian religion: "Love thy neighbour as yourself" and "Judge not others lest you will also be judged", to be n...
December 30, 2003
Dear Sir,
The decision of England to send a judge to Bermuda that the PLP leader has expressly stated that he did not want is simply a legacy of ancient colonialism which has its roots in deep seated racism.
Many Bermudians of Afric...
