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The Ministry of Tourism and the Tourism Board deserve credit for starting a website where members of the public can contribute their ideas for improving tourism.
This is a welcome initiative because it will make the process of building tourism more t...
DATE: Apr 27, 2011
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Yesterday’s feature on the problem of financing pensions and health care for seniors helped to humanise what can often seem to be an esoteric and academic subject.
It is anything but. As the comments from the senior citizens soon-to-be retirees show,...
DATE: Apr 26, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox’s message to the country last Thursday night was rightly focused on the two issues of paramount importance to the Island crime and the economy.
Having recently run into the first real problems she has experienced since becoming Pre...
DATE: Apr 25, 2011
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Retail sales plunged again in February, dropping 8.8 percent in real terms compared to 2010 and marking the 34th consecutive month that they were in decline.
This came after a poll in this newspaper that showed that around ten percent of the responde...
DATE: Apr 21, 2011
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Another weekend, another murder.
The shooting death, almost assassination style, of David Clarke on Sunday night is yet another sign that the violent crime which has afflicted Bermuda for the last 18 months is not over and may be entering a new phas...
DATE: Apr 20, 2011
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Hope always springs for tourism around this time of year. Too often, those same hopes are dashed by the end of the year, and the excuses have begun. There’s some reason to think that this year might be different but there are danger signs as well.
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DATE: Apr 19, 2011
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One poll does not make a politician’s career, and it doesn’t break it either.
But Premier Paula Cox and the Progressive Labour Party should be concerned about the rapid drop in popularity of both the Premier and the party in the latest polls from Min...
DATE: Apr 18, 2011
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(Reuters) Japan’s triple calamity of a huge earthquake, tsunami and a nuclear crisis has prompted an outpouring of sympathy, but that could turn to frustration if Tokyo fails to get the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years under control in coming month...
DATE: Apr 16, 2011
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Almost six years ago, there were scenes of jubilation in Ireland and Bermuda when the Island’s cricketers secured qualification to the World Cup for the first time ever.
Yesterday was very different. Bermuda was relegated to Division III of the Inte...
DATE: Apr 15, 2011
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The Royal Gazette’s exclusive interview last week with Henry Bellingham, the UK Minister responsible for British Overseas Territories, suggests that relations between the Island the UK are improving.
The Conservative Party, the senior partner in the...
DATE: Apr 14, 2011
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