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The tough decisions are coming

December 2, 2013 Dear Sir, As a supporter of the One Bermuda Alliance, I was very disappointed to watch them deal with the Lamb Foggo Centre closure. First of all, it wasn’t really their decision to make (or reverse), it was the full responsibility o...
Dec 03, 2013
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Sunday liquor sales bill tabled

Legislation allowing liquor sales on Sundays has been tabled in the House of Assembly. Amendments to the 1974 Act, once approved, will permit liquor sales from 8am to 9pm. The law applies to grocery and liquor stores. Christmas Day and Good Friday wi...
Dec 02, 2013
Politics

PLP ahead of OBA — new poll

The Progressive Labour Party has a marginal lead over the One Bermuda Alliance, according to a new poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette. And Opposition Leader Marc Bean enjoys a ten point lead over Premier Craig Cannonier in the survey carried out ...
Dec 02, 2013
Letters to the Editor

This fragile moment

November 29, 2013 Dear Sir, I was sitting among a few pundits, each who at various levels have exerted influence in business; politics and even one, an author whose opinion is highly respected on economic matters. We were discussing the SAGE report, ...
Dec 02, 2013
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We must build bridges

The Royal Gazette account of last Wednesday’s meeting on the SAGE Commission, suggests that this Report has engendered fear among many. One attendee reportedly described the Report as a ‘declaration of war’ and urged his fellows to ‘think like soldie...
Dec 02, 2013
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Cutting size of Cabinet gets broad backing

Two-thirds of voters want to cut Cabinet from 13 to eight Ministers, according to a new poll. Sixty-seven percent of people want Government to take up the SAGE Commission’s recommendation to reduce Cabinet by five, with 26 percent preferring the curr...
Dec 02, 2013
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Binns new Cabinet Secretary

Derrick Binns was formally sworn in as the new Cabinet Secretary this afternoon in a ceremony at Government House. Dr Binns, who replaces former Cabinet Secretary Donald Scott, previously held various civil servant posts including permanent secretary...
Dec 02, 2013
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CoH hires New York PR firm

The Corporation of Hamilton has ditched its Bermuda public relations firm and brought in a New York company. Councillors approved the hiring of Marston Webb International at a special Board meeting last month. The company had previously been hired a...
Nov 28, 2013
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Dunkley: I haven’t changed my position on a Regiment inquiry

Deputy Premier Michael Dunkley insisted yesterday he was not dragging his feet on whether an inquiry should be held into historic complaints of sexual misconduct in the Bermuda Regiment. The Public Safety Minister, who repeatedly called for an indepe...
Nov 28, 2013
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PATI could be operating next year — UK report

Bermuda’s freedom of information law could finally be enacted next year, according to a report published by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office yesterday. The report by the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council, on the Government’s progress ...
Nov 27, 2013
Letters to the Editor

Setting the record straight on Bermuda Regiment

November 26th, 2013 Dear Sir, I have read with interest Mr Larry Marshall’s recent long letters to the Editor about the Regiment. I do not propose to prolong the correspondence unnecessarily and would disagree with many of his emotive...
Nov 27, 2013
Letters to the Editor

A time for truthful hearts and thinking minds

Dear Sir, When you read the preamble to the Constitution of the United States you uncover a critical moment for the nation’s people that is exposed in the preamble’s rational. “Sometimes in the course of certain events there comes a time when a certa...
Nov 27, 2013
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