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Perhaps it was wishful thinking or naivety to think that, somehow, the upcoming general election campaign would be different.
Perhaps it was wishful thinking to believe that with Paula Cox and Craig Cannonier leading their respective parties, these ...
DATE: Oct 05, 2012
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Opposition MP Louise Jackson is quite correct when she says that the resignation of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital chief of staff Dr Donald Thomas raises more questions than answers.
Indeed, the litany of questions she asked, and the Bermuda Hosp...
DATE: Oct 04, 2012
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When Premier Paula Cox announced recently that the economy was recovering, this newspaper speculated that perhaps she had information that the public had not yet seen.
That was because the economic picture otherwise looked gloomy, and she did not pr...
DATE: Sep 27, 2012
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Perhaps it was too good to be true.
This past weekend was fun. Several thousand people turned out for the John Lennon tribute concert on Friday night at the Botanical Gardens. On Saturday evening, there was a standing-room-only crowd at the WER Joel...
DATE: Sep 25, 2012
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Ten months ago, the One Bermuda Alliance was cruising along with 41 percent of the vote in a likely general election, while the governing Progressive Labour Party was lagging with 35 percent, according to The Royal Gazette's MindMaps poll in December...
DATE: Sep 24, 2012
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One of the unintended consequences of giving British passports to British Overseas Territories citizens is the recent trend of mothers departing to Britain with their children.
It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that all of these mothers a...
DATE: Sep 22, 2012
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The arson attack on Ashfield DeVent’s car on Monday is rightly being condemned across the political landscape.
Attacks on politicians’ property are not unknown, but have been mercifully rare. Many years ago, then-Finance Minister Clarence James’ ho...
DATE: Sep 19, 2012
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Yesterday and today’s Royal Gazette stories about mothers moving to the United Kingdom with their children, often to be eligible for benefits, and leaving the fathers behind is a grim reflection on the state of the Bermuda family.
For some time now,...
DATE: Sep 19, 2012
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Last week’s economic forums hosted by Sir John Swan and Larry Burchall saw the vexed question of term limits raised again, and some debate on the degree to which changing the policy might help the economy.
First, it is worth noting, again, that term...
DATE: Sep 18, 2012
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There has been considerable debate in recent days over the suitability of people with past criminal convictions running for office.
There was a time when a conviction, even one that was relatively minor, was sufficient to prevent a person from runni...
DATE: Sep 13, 2012
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