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It’s self-evident that good decision making requires reliable facts. Decision-making based on anecdotes and “gut feeling” is almost always doomed.
That is why sound statistics are essential, especially to Governments and businesses. Yesterday’s rele...
DATE: Jul 07, 2011
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One of the great things about the Internet is the power it has to move ideas around the world at tremendous speed.
A speech given by a physicist in New Zealand might not have been reported on 20 years ago, let alone recorded.
But thanks to the Inter...
DATE: Jul 05, 2011
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Zane DeSilva has been one of the more energetic Ministers in Premier Paula Cox’s Cabinet, having thrown himself into the job of Health Minister with great zeal and an eye for the photo opportunity every bit as sharp as his political mentor, Dr Ewart ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2011
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Dr Monique Keyser has not told Bermuda anything it does not know, even if it does not want to admit it, about the small army of “wall sitters” and gang members who are steadily destroying themselves and the social fabric of the Island.
But it is imm...
DATE: Jul 01, 2011
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The Royal Gazette carried two lead stories on successive days featuring the outgoing general managers of the Fairmont hotels in Bermuda.
The timing was more by accident than by design, but given what Norman Mastalir, Fairmont's Bermuda head and the ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox’s teasing comment last week that she might call a general election sooner rather than later has ignited another round of election speculation.
Ms Cox, whose decision it is, has until early 2013, or some 18 months, in which to call a...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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Bermuda’s sporting organisations often come in for a lot of criticism, much of it justified. That does not negate the enormous amount of voluntary time that people put into sports organisations, or the fact Bermuda often punches well above its weight...
DATE: Jun 24, 2011
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Anti-Progressive Labur Party graffiti which appeared over last weekend has no place in Bermuda politics.
The graffiti, depicting a Dennis the Menace type figure urinating on the PLP logo, is juvenile and meaningless.
While this newspaper supports f...
DATE: Jun 24, 2011
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Give Health Minister Zane DeSilva a little credit for apologising for making an anti-Semitic slur in the House of Assembly.
But it’s worrying that while he did withdraw the remark after making it in the House of Assembly, and did apologise for it ag...
DATE: Jun 23, 2011
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The announcement that the Sunshine League plans to close its 24-hour residential care facility is the most tangible sign yet of how the recession is hurting people.
No one would dispute that the Sunshine League has provided a critically important se...
DATE: Jun 23, 2011
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