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How much are those doggies in the window? The ones pressing their noses oh-so adorably against the glass. The ones cavorting in beds of shredded paper in a bid to get Queen Street passers-by to make snap impulse purchases.
Never mind what it says on ...
DATE: Jul 14, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
The serious accident in Southampton yesterday afternoon is a reminder that users of Bermuda’s roads must exercise more care.
No matter the rights or wrongs of the crash on Middle Road, the end result is that another family are spending unscheduled ti...
DATE: Jul 13, 2015
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I’m so, so proud to be Bermudian right now.”
Those are the words of Judy Simons, president of the Bermuda Olympic Association, after Flora Duffy captured third place in the women’s triathlon at the Pan American Games in Toronto on Saturday.
It was ni...
DATE: Jul 13, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Defamation is defined as the communication of a false statement that harms the reputation of an individual person, business, product, group, government, religion or nation as well as other various kinds of defamation that retaliate against groundless...
DATE: Jul 10, 2015
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Everyone loves a winner. We are no different in Bermuda as past masters in the art of backing a sure thing.
Such can be gleaned from an infamous quote by a supposed football supporter that was heard not so long ago: “I left West Ham and went to Chels...
DATE: Jul 08, 2015
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The one-time wife of one member of Hollywood royalty, the mother of another and the mother-in-law of a third, in 1992 Bermuda-born actress Diana Douglas published a characteristically elegant memoir called In The Wings.
The title was a play on the th...
DATE: Jul 07, 2015
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For any new era to be given a chance to thrive, it requires the support staff to be in good working order. The Bermuda Government requires it, private enterprise requires it, and so, too, do the myriad organisations that make up working life in this ...
DATE: Jul 06, 2015
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It was as remarkable and powerful a piece of presidential oratory as many of us have witnessed in our lifetimes, a transcendent moment in a profoundly transformational period in modern history.
Barack Obama, coming off a watershed week in his preside...
DATE: Jul 01, 2015
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As America observed the centenary of the outbreak of its Civil War in 1961, the Bermuda Historical Monuments Trust — predecessor to the National Trust — opened The Confederate Museum in St George’s Globe Hotel.
The Island, because of geography, hist...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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The opening shots of the American Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter outside Charleston, South Carolina, in 1861 when troops of the secessionist Confederacy bombarded Union defenders.
When the centenary of the outbreak of this fratricidal conflict —...
DATE: Jun 25, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion