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Just as Oscar Wilde said that he did not want to live in a world where Utopia wasn’t marked on the map, so an increasing number of tourists are opting to travel to destinations which can’t properly be said to fall within the province of conventional ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
The seafarers and shipwrights today’s Bermudians are descended from would have been intimately familiar with a venerable nautical term, one which dates from Roman times: “When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wi...
DATE: Apr 08, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
At one time Bermuda had become so closely identified with this season of rebirth and renewal it was routinely referred to as “The Easter Isle” in the North American press.
By the end of the 19th century, Bermuda dominated fully 90 per cent of the Eas...
DATE: Apr 02, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
For the first time in many years, investors in the hospitality sector are looking at the cost/benefit analyses of doing business in Bermuda and deciding the Island is a sound bet.
The Green family are pumping millions of dollars into Hamilton’s Princ...
DATE: Apr 01, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Even the most scrupulously law-abiding of Bermuda’s residents is unlikely to be entirely happy with all of Bermuda’s laws.
But in a community based on the rule of law, we are all bound to respect and observe even legislation which we fundamentally op...
DATE: Mar 30, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Encouraging voters to organise, march and rally in defence of their interests is always a healthy thing in a democracy, particularly a lethargic one like ours.
In theory, Bermudians are of course free to make their voices heard and their opinions kno...
DATE: Mar 27, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
RG: In Our Opinion
She was uncompromising in her conviction there should be no second-class citizenship for any Bermudians.
For Carol Dowding Hill the rights of all were threatened when the rights of a single individual were curtailed.
She would acce...
DATE: Mar 26, 2015
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In Bermuda it’s never been uncommon for the buck to be passed hither, thither and yon.
There have always been those among us who cheerfully accept credit for their successes — even successes they only played minimal roles in — while side-stepping a...
DATE: Mar 24, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
The massacre at Tunisia’s Bardo National Museum on Wednesday didn’t just bear all the hallmarks of modern extremist terror, it was an almost precise re-enactment of one of the first such large-scale atrocities.
In 1997 six insurgents disguised as mem...
DATE: Mar 21, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
The annual ordeal by tedium that is the Parliamentary Budget debate is now behind us. As usual, there was much in the way of grandstanding, sub-Gilbert & Sullivan political slapstick and contrived emoting.
But precious little was heard about practic...
DATE: Mar 19, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion