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David Burt and the Progressive Labour Party can take a good deal of heart from the by-election result last week.
Despite the low turnout, which the Premier rightly said was common for a by-election, the PLP romped to victory, maintaining a winning m...
DATE: Nov 27, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion
“When people are coming to talk to me in my office, they’re not saying they hate international business. They’re saying, ‘I’m not eating, my son’s not working, how do I get opportunities in this country? So how can I agree, Mr Caines, to you giving a...
DATE: Nov 25, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion
The definition of a schoolyard bully is one who engages in proactive aggression with the expectation of gaining a reward.
What reward, pray tell, was there to be gained from a union president piling in on a wet-behind-the-ears political candidate wh...
DATE: Nov 22, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion
The late John Stubbs is best known today for being the name behind the “Stubbs Bill”, which decriminalised anal sex, or sodomy, in Bermuda. But as a parliamentarian of long standing, he was also a great student of politics and political behaviour. On...
DATE: Nov 20, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion
Dear David,
Why don’t you f*** off back to whatever n***** shithole you originate from and take that white, bestiality, n*****-loving whore wife of yours with you.
You are nothing more than a fat, bashment-loving n*****. The only reason you are an M...
DATE: Nov 18, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion
The One Bermuda Alliance was right to object to the Progressive Labour Party government’s publication and mail-out of a two-year report on its progress since it was elected.
There are times when the line between what constitutes government business ...
DATE: Nov 15, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion
Bermuda is now well on the road to recovery from Hurricane Humberto, and it is impossible to ignore the reality that it is the fourth serious hurricane to have done damage to our island in the past five years.
Hurricanes Fay and Gonzalo hit in 2015 ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion
At the stroke of 11am yesterday, Bermuda fell silent for two minutes to honour our war dead. The tradition dates from the Armistice, which ended what was then called the Great War on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in 19...
DATE: Nov 12, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion
Now that the dust has settled, a word on our Bermuda cricket team who returned home this week after a winless exercise at the ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates.
There is strong temptation to say that it was a failure — and the s...
DATE: Nov 01, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion
At the beginning of his speech to the Progressive Labour Party delegates conference on Monday night, David Burt warned the audience: “Fasten your seatbelts.”
In this, at least, the Premier was not indulging in hyperbole or exaggeration. Towards the ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion