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The Speech from the Throne brought to mind the comment from Mario Cuomo, the first member of that family to govern New York, that politicians “campaign in poetry, but govern in prose”.
Throne speeches are often filled with grand phrasemaking and aff...
DATE: Nov 06, 2021
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It is a fairly simple task to pillory Wayne Furbert for his recent ham-handed handling of plans to reform the Bermuda Post Office.
The Minister for the Cabinet Office blundered into a storm of controversy when he defended plans to have the Post Offi...
DATE: Nov 04, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
“This is not who we are, this is not what we want to be known for, this is not the way of life we want for ourselves or for our children.”
So said Darrin Simons, the Acting Commissioner of Police, in the wake of Tuesday’s mass shooting in the Robin H...
DATE: Oct 29, 2021
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It may be difficult to believe as deaths continue to mount from the latest outbreak of Covid-19, but Bermuda is recovering from what has been by all measures the worst coronavirus crisis the island has yet experienced.
That’s not to say we are out o...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Today, The Royal Gazette reports on a gloomy report from Bermuda financial adviser Anchor Investment Management, which confirms what many people will already have felt in their wallets: the Bermuda economy’s rebound has stalled.
After the Covid-19 l...
DATE: Oct 08, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The fault lines that have emerged over Bermuda’s approach to the Covid-19 crisis and especially towards vaccination are deeply worrying.
It is easy to forget, when the sound and the fury are loudest, that the vast majority of Bermuda residents have a...
DATE: Oct 06, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
It looked like the dispute that has taken the public bus service off the road for the past 12 days was coming to an end last night. It is not before time.
There are and were no winners in this deadlock.
The bus drivers had moved from cutting off th...
DATE: Sep 30, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The 17 coronavirus-related deaths announced between Friday and Monday shattered the final hopes of anyone clinging to the idea that somehow this fourth wave of Covid-19 was less severe than its predecessors.
Those in power — starting with David Burt,...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The Government has mismanaged the latest outbreak of the coronavirus. It is that simple.
Having managed the coronavirus well in 2020 — and been rewarded at the polls as a result — the Progressive Labour Party government’s handling of the present outb...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The first rules to apply when trying to persuade people to change their minds are to pick an issue that is relatively straightforward and then to keep your argument as simple as possible.
The campaign by the Bermuda Industrial Union to overturn the ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion