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Outgoing Elbow Beach general manager Frank Stocek’s comments on the state of tourism were very similar to those given by Norman Mastalir and Jonathan Crellin when they left the Princess hotels earlier this year.
All said Bermuda had strengths, but th...
DATE: Nov 09, 2011
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The term election budget is pretty well known, signifying a budget that gives out a great deal and even reduces taxes, all in the name of re-election.
Friday’s Throne Speech might be described as an election Throne Speech, and may well turn out to b...
DATE: Nov 07, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox promised she would make a bold move in her speech at the Progressive Labour Party banquet and she delivered with a sweeping Cabinet shuffle yesterday. Whether it is the right move remains to be seen.
Ms Cox would presumably say tha...
DATE: Nov 03, 2011
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One Bermuda Alliance Leader Craig Cannonier’s sweeping victory in last night’s Devonshire South Central by-election gives his party a boost while sending the former United Bermuda Party rump back to the drawing board.
And it also means that the Progr...
DATE: Nov 02, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox came in to office a year ago facing three major challenges. The first was to differentiate herself from her predecessor, Dr Ewart Brown, the second to try to resolve the Island’s gang violence crisis and the third, and most importan...
DATE: Oct 31, 2011
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Devonshire South Central voters go to the polls next week to choose a replacement for John Barritt, the outgoing MP who stepped down after relinquishing the interim leadership of the One Bermuda Alliance.
Mr Barritt did so to fulfil a pledge that he ...
DATE: Oct 28, 2011
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MP Charlie Swan has called on Public Works Minister and Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess to resign over the Global House lights scandal.
That’s a heavy demand and not one that should be made lightly. The Minister concerned should either have been dish...
DATE: Oct 27, 2011
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Plans to reform Bermuda’s healthcare system seem to be progressing, with the publication last week of public feedback to the proposals and the appointment of task forces to now start putting place changes.
As Health Minister Zane DeSilva said, no on...
DATE: Oct 25, 2011
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The ongoing legal dispute between Digicel and its competitors in the telecommunications field proves that the aching slow process of reform in the sector is hampering Bermuda’s ability to offer high quality and lower cost services to residents and bu...
DATE: Oct 24, 2011
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New indicators this week prove that the economy is still getting worse.
To be sure, the Retail Sales Index for August edged up in nominal terms year over year for the first time in three years and any sign of improvement is welcome.
But it fell in ...
DATE: Oct 21, 2011
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