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It was a sweltering Bermuda afternoon in August 1965. The average person, local and visitor alike, felt as drained of energy as a dead car battery. But then Muhammad Ali was not the least bit average.
Crowned the world heavyweight boxing champion le...
DATE: Jun 06, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
Our politicians need to stop kicking the can down Bermuda’s increasingly ill-maintained and potholed roads.
After years of stopgap measures, piecemeal and patchwork repairs and pared-down funding, Bermuda must finally establish a comprehensive long-t...
DATE: Jun 03, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
There are two men in custody for the murder of Patrick Dill. They may or may not be guilty of the crime, but the wider question is: what is Bermuda going to do about a problem that is eating away at our community.
Not the black community. Not the whi...
DATE: Jun 01, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
And so we have come to the end of another Bermuda National School Salute. Bigger and better was the ambition for the second edition and, by all accounts, it has been mission accomplished.
But we still have some ways to go for the schoolchildren who r...
DATE: May 23, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
It’s graduation season. At the Bermuda College this week, a new crop of freshly minted graduates were offered sage advice on life and the never-ending pursuit of knowledge and excellence by Opposition senator Kim Wilkerson, the commencement speaker. ...
DATE: May 21, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
We have not had a fatality on Bermuda’s roads for 37 days, but that has not been for the want of trying. The number of near misses since Taiwan Smith lost his life on April 11 is ridiculous and should give cause for this island to take proper stock o...
DATE: May 18, 2016
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It has been said Bermuda has a tendency to hurry slowly, that it’s the land where time has almost, but not quite, stood still.
There’s more than a little truth to this, of course. Our leisurely pace is part of our charm. Indeed, one of the island’s ...
DATE: May 14, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
It came from above. It came sideways. It came from below. It came with no shortage of unseasonably squallish winds. But after all that Mother Nature could throw at the XL Catlin End-to-End on Saturday, hundreds of Bermudians and those who have taken ...
DATE: May 09, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
Technically, a recession of unprecedented length and severity came to an end in Bermuda last year.
That was when the island finally recorded two consecutive quarters of modest, but measurable, growth in our gross domestic product.
In practice, howev...
DATE: May 07, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion
When Leicester City clinched the Barclays Premier League title as 5,000-1 shots, the sporting world reached instantly for the annals to unfurl the greatest upsets in our time.
Out came Goran Ivanisevic winning the 2001 Wimbledon men’s singles title a...
DATE: May 06, 2016
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RG: In our Opinion