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Today, The Royal Gazette begins a new campaign called “Speak Up, Save Lives”.
As the name suggests, the overarching goal is to encourage people to provide information that may help to resolve the 12 unsolved murders that have occurred in the last tw...
DATE: Aug 29, 2011
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It says a lot about a politician when leaders from four political parties, past and present, give him fulsome praise. But that reflects the kind of man that Walter Brangman, who died this week at the age of 81, was.
One Bermuda Alliance leader John ...
DATE: Aug 26, 2011
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News in today’s Royal Gazette that the Tourism “master plan” will not be ready until the early months of next year is deeply disappointing.
That’s because the delays show that there is a still belief in Government that it is business as usual for tou...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
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A US law meant to snuff out billions of dollars in offshore tax evasion has drawn the criticism of the world's banks and business people, who dismiss it as imperialist and "the neutron bomb of the global financial system."
The unusually broad regulat...
DATE: Aug 22, 2011
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Based on early evidence, it appears that the Bermuda Industrial Union and its bus driver members may have miscalculated in going out on strike.
A poll in this newspaper’s website, while not a scientific poll, showed opposition on the order of 95 per...
DATE: Aug 19, 2011
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Bermuda is on the brink of the worst industrial action in several years.
While the disputes concerning bus drivers and the Corporation of Hamilton are over dismissals of employees for disciplinary reasons, they are being played out against a backgro...
DATE: Aug 18, 2011
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There are few certainties in life, but one is that as long as the Bermuda Post Office continues its self-destructive refusal to deliver mail when one digit is incorrect in a mailing address it will ensure, letters, or more likely, e-mails, to the Edi...
DATE: Aug 18, 2011
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There can be very few people left in Bermuda who do not recognise the gravity of the recession and the desperate need for Bermuda to improve its levels of service and competitiveness.
Those who are left, based on the events of the last week, seem to...
DATE: Aug 16, 2011
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One Bermuda Alliance Michael Fahy and community activist Raymond Russell have both come in for an unfair amount of vitriol for their efforts to get the Bermuda Industrial Union to bring its accounts up to date and to ensure they have a clean audit.
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DATE: Aug 03, 2011
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The one set of statistics that seems to give people more problems than any other are crime statistics.
They can be read in so many different ways, and in a small community, small changes can be made huge on a proportional basis.
Thus, if the number o...
DATE: Aug 01, 2011
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