1159 results returned for search: "" category ("Editorials" AND "Opinion")
Does Bermuda really get the America’s Cup? That was the question repeated ad infinitum in the lead-up to one of the most anticipated weeks in the Island’s history — sporting or otherwise.
Among the biggest criticisms, or put-downs, was that the battl...
DATE: Oct 19, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Editorials
|
AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
“What’s important is not the character of a place ... rather the character in the place.”
With one of the preliminary stages of the America’s Cup looming and the grand final but two years away, Plato’s philosophy could be taken on board by Bermudia...
DATE: Oct 16, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Editorials
|
AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
With the America’s Cup show in town, powerful brands are everywhere. Anyone watching the racing this weekend will encounter names such as Louis Vuitton, Land Rover, SoftBank, Emirates, BMW and Bremont. All global brands, words or phrases that carry a...
DATE: Oct 15, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Editorials
|
AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
All too often Bermuda’s politicians and their surrogates like to style themselves as the shark-oil barometers of the public mood. But, just as often, they are actually attempting to manipulate popular sentiment rather than simply measure and mirror i...
DATE: Oct 14, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Editorials
|
AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
You would have to be blind or wilfully ignorant not to appreciate that something is happening. And that something very big is about to happen.
A little short of ten months ago, it was said and written in copious fashion that Bermuda would become the ...
DATE: Oct 12, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Editorials
|
AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
The news that Atlantic Tele-Networks (ATN), the American telecommunications company, has agreed a deal to take a controlling interest in KeyTech represents something of a vote of confidence in the Island’s economy.
The Nasdaq stock exchange-listed co...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Editorials
|
AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
Beginnings and endings should always dovetail in any well-constructed drama. And there was a touch of theatrical symmetry involved as family and friends gathered in Bermuda last week to pay their final respects to Diana Douglas.
Held on the very eve...
DATE: Oct 07, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Editorials
|
AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
Bermudians at home and abroad will have spent the past 48 hours nervously studying updates on the progress of Hurricane Joaquin. The weather system, which at one stage over the weekend was a fraction short of being a Category 5 storm, proved not to b...
DATE: Oct 05, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Editorials
|
AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
When Age Concern’s Claudette Fleming told this newspaper last week that seniors were fed up with being preached to, she was probably expressing a widespread frustration among older people.
It seems that seniors are all too frequently viewed as a gro...
DATE: Oct 01, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Editorials
|
AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
History has an unfortunate tendency of playing out as tragedy before it eventually comes to be understood as an ongoing morality tale.
The historical record is, in the main, a long, bleak account of man’s inhumanity to man. And even humankind’s dar...
DATE: Sep 29, 2015
|
CATEGORY:
Editorials
|
AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion