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It was a time of seemingly unlimited possibilities in Bermuda and she came to embody that time.
Elegant, poised and strikingly intelligent, Jacqueline Swan was Bermuda’s de facto First Lady between 1982 and 1995, when her husband, long-time Premier ...
DATE: Jul 05, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
The economy may be growing again but the number of jobs is not. That was one of the conclusions that could be drawn from the Bermuda Job Market Employment Briefs report published last week.
Based on a survey of employers in the first week of Septembe...
DATE: Jul 01, 2016
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So Bermuda has spoken on same-sex marriage and civil unions. Well, 46.89 per cent of registered voters have spoken.
Semantics.
No matter the invalidity or illegality of an already non-binding referendum, significantly more than the previously agreed...
DATE: Jun 27, 2016
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The greatest assist the “Yes, Yes” campaigners could have received in the run-up to the same-sex marriage and civil unions referendum this week came from an unlikely source.
No, not Sir John Swan, but Omar Mateen.
When the radicalised New Yorker of i...
DATE: Jun 21, 2016
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Sir John Swan may best be described as an idealist without illusions. He is a man whose boldly optimistic vision of what Bermuda has the potential to be has always been tempered by an intuitive understanding of life’s harder realities.
His ability t...
DATE: Jun 19, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
Highly thoughtful and deliberative, Chief Justice Ian Kawaley is a man not to be taken anything but seriously. And before issuing a recent ruling upholding the legality of the pending referendum on same-sex marriage and civil unions, he bluntly descr...
DATE: Jun 17, 2016
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On the same day that Bermudians go to the polls for the same-sex marriage vote next week, another referendum will be taking place some 3,500 miles away that will have a potentially greater impact on this island’s future prospects.
Britons will be dec...
DATE: Jun 16, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
Traffic came to a literal standstill in Bermuda on Saturday. The gridlock lasted throughout the day when construction work on Harbour Road resulted in thousands of motorists heading both to and from the western parishes being snarled in endless traff...
DATE: Jun 14, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
This week she became the presumptive Democratic nominee for the United States presidency, the first woman to be selected as the standard-bearer for either of the two major political parties. Given the all too obvious shortcomings of the Republican ca...
DATE: Jun 11, 2016
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In many ways, the United States Constitution and the entire American experiment can be argued to be the supreme products of the Age of Reason.
From its birth, America has been a society predicated on enlightened principles, one that has continuously...
DATE: Jun 08, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion