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Another day, another chancer who overtakes blindly, playing chicken with our lives.
Another day, another incompetent who point-blank refuses to signal.
Another day, another incessant tailgater who leaves us no room for error.
Another day, another ho...
DATE: May 30, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
Given that the One Bermuda Alliance has a mere 12 seats in Parliament, and generally appears to be at a crossroads fighting for its existence, you would imagine there might be a tad bit more urgency to fill the void left by the resignations of Jeff B...
DATE: May 11, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
Since David Burt threw his toys out of the pram in reaction to the appointment of Narinder Hargun as the next Chief Justice, the media have been consistent in asking, “Why?”
Why is the Government so opposed to someone who comes with impeccable creden...
DATE: May 11, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
Whatever one thinks about David Burt — and these days, it’s mostly positive — he is the Premier of Bermuda.
The leader of the country.
How is it, then, that someone can be alleged to have threatened to put a hole in his head, and pull him out of his...
DATE: May 11, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
When all’s said and done, it was actually pretty boring. As a contest, that is. When you add all the emotion pouring out of the crowds lined all through Hamilton, of course, it was anything but.
Simply put, we’re used to this now. Flora Duffy dominat...
DATE: Apr 30, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
There was a time when Jeff Baron and Michael Dunkley, the former Premier of Bermuda, were inseparable. They were like peas in a pod, one entirely in step with the other, looking to do “the people’s business”, an impressively indefatigable and well-ma...
DATE: Apr 27, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
We seek and deserve an overdue apology from Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education and Workforce Development. This is not because the Bow-tied One has gone out of his way to create a war footing with The Royal Gazette. It is because there is the li...
DATE: Apr 27, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
We have long been hearing that Bermuda needs to diversify its economy. The reasons are straightforward enough. Bob Richards, the former finance minister put it well in an interview with The Royal Gazette in 2010.
“Take a B52, a bomber that’s designed...
DATE: Apr 18, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
Ira Philip was a newsman who eventually became part of the larger Bermudian story he covered for so many years.
During a career that spanned almost seven decades, his journalistic beats encompassed everything from politics to sport, from cultural hi...
DATE: Apr 10, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
It is mightily disappointing that PHC’s record-breaking tenth football league championship has been forced to share time in the news cycle with the shenanigans that followed the club’s celebration party last Sunday.
They did not deserve that.
But a ...
DATE: Apr 06, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion