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The Progressive Labour Party’s efforts to throw doubts over the One Bermuda Alliance’s pledge to maintain benefits for FutureCare patients does not seem to be gaining traction.
That’s because it is pretty hard to argue against an unequivocal stateme...
DATE: Nov 21, 2012
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It’s not entirely clear why John Gibbons has stepped down as the Progressive Labour Party candidate for St George’s West, but it provides a new wrinkle in an already complex constituency — one of the most closely watched of this election season.
Wit...
DATE: Nov 19, 2012
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It has all the makings of a great thriller novel about politics.
A journalist gets a politician to admit there is a secret plan to launch a new political party and to fool the public into thinking it is different from a party which was previously def...
DATE: Nov 16, 2012
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Government has been claiming in Town Hall meetings that GCSE pass rates this year are 90 percent or higher — using G as a pass.
Despite repeated requests from this newspaper, the Ministry of Eduction is refusing to release the detailed results until ...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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The 2012 general election has its first dispute.
Students who still face exams on or after December 17 will be unable to vote and they are not happy about this.
This issue has its roots in the 1998 general election, which then-Premier Pamela Gordon ...
DATE: Nov 14, 2012
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It’s no coincidence that both Premier Paula Cox and Opposition Leader Craig Cannonier referred to the past as in, let’s not go back there in their opening salvos of the election campaign.
Ms Cox said: “You have a choice in this election. Let’s move ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2012
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The long wait is over and the general election is finally underway.
It is not hyperbole to say that this election is critically important to Bermuda’s future.
Never before has a free election been held against a backdrop of such severe economic pro...
DATE: Nov 10, 2012
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The election of the Corporation of Hamilton solely by resident registered voters has been hailed as a great step forward for democracy.
And in many ways it is. Certainly, the end of the property vote in the City of Hamilton was seen by any as the ove...
DATE: Nov 09, 2012
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US President Barack Obama’s re-election will be welcomed in Bermuda, where his story and message of unity remain compelling.
Although it can be argued from an economic point of view that a President Romney would have been more helpful to Bermuda in ...
DATE: Nov 08, 2012
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There were two stories on yesterday’s front page that were very similar on the surface, but have drawn strikingly different reactions.
Bermudian actor Earl Cameron was honoured by the Corporation of Hamilton by having City Hal’s theatre named after h...
DATE: Nov 07, 2012
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