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Overgrown grass, weeds and roadside vegetation has been a hotter topic than usual this summer.
The state of the Island’s parks and public open spaces has, at times, left a lot to be desired. Some areas have become virtually impassable jungles of long...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Every generation likes to consider itself to be more intelligent, more capable and entirely more virtuous than the one which preceded it. And every generation likes to think it has either attained or is close to attaining the very pinnacle of human p...
DATE: Sep 24, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Great employers deserve their moment in the spotlight. Their immense value to the community all too frequently flies under the radar. The issue of labour relations only seems to make the news when there is a dispute or when employees are found to be ...
DATE: Sep 23, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
It’s September and Bermuda’s children crept unwillingly back to school this month. Doubtless many of them are already counting the days until the Christmas holidays begin — as are their parents, although for altogether different reasons.
The start of...
DATE: Sep 22, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Bermuda can count itself fortunate to be home to the Green family. Their purchase of the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, the $90 million makeover that has followed, the development of the hotel’s beach club on the site of the former Sonesta hotel in ...
DATE: Sep 17, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Let’s be absolutely clear about what we’re asking for here. We are not calling for an outright ban on helmets with tinted visors. Nor are we calling for a ban on full-faced helmets. What we want is to rid the streets of the dark-tinted visors and tho...
DATE: Sep 16, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
The difference between propaganda and reasoned argument is the difference between a beef bouillon cube and Kobe beef.
Like their counterparts elsewhere, Bermuda’s politicians and their surrogates have a tendency to tailor their preferred public relat...
DATE: Sep 15, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
When we said last Friday that incidents the like of which resulted in the death of Shijuan Mungal last year could happen every day in Bermuda, it was not done to apportion blame to the slain teenager. Nor was it done to take a pop at our young people...
DATE: Sep 14, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
The just concluded murder trial of Kiahna Trott-Edwards is as good a case as any to exemplify the depth of societal breakdown in Bermuda.
Two people, unknown to one another before that fateful day on September 8 last year, thrust into a narrative tha...
DATE: Sep 11, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Economic inequality is increasingly an issue on the Island and not only between those who have jobs and those who do not.
The widening gap between the best paid in our community and the lowest paid should not be ignored. On an Island of this size, t...
DATE: Sep 10, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion