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At a time when people need to be working together to save the Bermuda economy, claims that employers and the One Bermuda Alliance are working together to make people unemployed as part of some kind of devious plot to trip up the Government are inexpl...
DATE: Sep 02, 2011
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The news this week that Government has ruled out a rescue of the Sunshine League demonstrates just how badly its priorities are out of order.
This decision has been made by the same Government Ministers since all Ministerial decisions are collective...
DATE: Sep 02, 2011
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It’s been said before, but bears repeating. The time it takes to release the results of the annual employment survey a year is a disservice to the community and to the policymakers who cannot make good decisions without accurate and up to date inform...
DATE: Sep 01, 2011
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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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