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It is hard to believe that the majority of people living in today’s Bermuda have any real appreciation for what true censorship entails.
There are places in the world where thoughts, beliefs, speech, and daily lives, right down to the clothes people ...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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This is the seventh in a mulipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
For generations Bermudians were familiarised almost from birth with the benefits the whole Island derived from the tourism industry.
Our welcoming nature and graciousne...
DATE: Aug 28, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
This is the sixth in a multipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
By the beginning of the 21st century the traditional Bermudian way of life was coming to an end. This did not occur overnight but with the implacable, steadily accumulati...
DATE: Aug 23, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
The fifth in a multipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
The 9/11 terror attacks on the United States had an instantaneous, twofold impact on Bermuda.
The global tourism industry sustained catastrophic collateral damage when hijackers...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
The fourth in a multipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
Bermuda began to absorb successive tidal wave impacts of new re/insurance incorporations and newly arrived people beginning in the late 1980s.
Such was the enormity of the ongoi...
DATE: Aug 16, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
The third in a multipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
The only thing more frightening than rapid change is a stagnant status quo.
And the reality is by the early 1980s Bermuda was confronting stagnation. Our routine way of doing ...
DATE: Aug 14, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
The second in a multi-part series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
Like the drowned sailor in Shakespeare’s Bermuda-inspired Tempest whose bones were transformed into coral, the moribund local tourism economy underwent a sea-change of its own ...
DATE: Aug 12, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
RG: In our opinion
This is the first of a multi-part series
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Bermudian politics has long been viewed as a tragedy by those who feel, a comedy by those who think. Recently, though, even those thinking men and women among us with the most exte...
DATE: Aug 09, 2014
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In both his contemporaneous public statements and private writings British statesman Winston Churchill took to describing the First World War in Biblical terms.
Churchill routinely invoked Armageddon when referring to the 1914-1918 conflict which l...
DATE: Aug 07, 2014
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It is typically Bermudian that this tiny Island, divided in so many other ways, could find the stuff of national unity in, of all things, a two-day game of cricket. But even as the just completed Cup Match partitions the Island into two opposing camp...
DATE: Aug 04, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion