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Drinking and driving in Bermuda is a national pastime and, unfortunately, socially acceptable. So is speeding on the roads.
According to police statistics, 76 people were arrested for impaired driving after accidents last year. No doubt, that does no...
DATE: Mar 02, 2013
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The announcement yesterday of the budget for the Community and Cultural Development Ministry revealed some eye-opening facts.
Money allocated to the Bermuda Housing Corporation increased 49 percent, to continue funding the HUSTLE truck initiative and...
DATE: Feb 28, 2013
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How many times have you almost knocked down a ‘third laner’ trying to switch lanes? How many times have you experienced erratic driving because a motorist is too busy texting? How many times have you seen a mangled bike at the side of the road?
The ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2013
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Is it anti-climax or were expectations too high? There is a sense of ‘what was missing’ when Finance Minister ET (Bob) Richards read the Budget yesterday.
But in the cold light of day, what else was to be expected? The focus was on the debt, jobs and...
DATE: Feb 23, 2013
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Finance Minister (ET) Bob Richards has to achieve the impossible today.
He has to stabilise the debt, he has to find money for a robust social package, he has to find ways of helping businesses survive, he has limited ways of finding new revenue and ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2013
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It’s a dire warning and one that we need to heed urgently — before we price ourselves out of the market.
The cost of care is simply not sustainable for such a small island and can no longer be taken for granted, especially as the population is gettin...
DATE: Feb 20, 2013
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“That wharf is — in terms of design and construction — full of defects and deficiencies and is not safe. We have been lucky enough so far not to have a major problem but that may be down to a matter of luck.”
Those were the words of Public Works Mini...
DATE: Feb 19, 2013
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This newspaper cannot help but feel that Walton Brown may be right when he said in this newspaper yesterday that Bermuda is about to enter a period of strained relations between unions and Government.
The writing has been on the wall for a while now ...
DATE: Feb 14, 2013
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It was not so much what was said, it was the order in which it was said that was instructive.
Jobs, debt, jobs, small business, entrepreneurs, jobs. That was the first seven pages, then came tourism and then crime. Hitting all the right buttons early...
DATE: Feb 09, 2013
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Yesterday this newspaper published two stories about the British Parliament’s overwhelming vote in support of legalising gay marriage.
Locally the LGBTQ community welcomed the news, saying “legalising marriage validates a person’s existence and relat...
DATE: Feb 07, 2013
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