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Yesterday’s story about the visit of Ryan Miller to see the home of Dakarai Tucker restores faith in mankind, even when we are facing difficult times.
Dakarai Tucker died four years ago at the age of 15, two weeks after suffering a brain aneurysm.
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DATE: Feb 28, 2012
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Premier Paula Cox has defended her Government’s Budget policies of recent years as a choice between austerity and growth.
She has claimed that the policies, along with the rollbacks on payroll taxes and payroll tax relief, have saved something on th...
DATE: Feb 27, 2012
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No one would want to be Finance Minister right now, and that adds to the mystery of why Premier Paula Cox kept the portfolio when she did not have to.
As stated in Thursday’s editorial, Ms Cox is stuck between a rock and a hard place this year, give...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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No one would want to be Finance Minister right now, and that adds to the mystery of why Premier Paula Cox kept the portfolio when she did not have to.
As stated in Thursday’s editorial, Ms Cox is stuck between a rock and a hard place this year, give...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” the great Samuel Johnson once said, and while it would be completely unfair to characterise the Premier in that way, her use of patriotism in attacking Shadow Finance Minister ET (Bob) Richards carried ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2012
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The continuing deterioration in the economy means that Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox is caught between a rock and a hard place as she prepares to deliver the Budget tomorrow.
The growing budget deficit, and all indications are that it is wor...
DATE: Feb 23, 2012
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In 2007, this newspaper warned that the requirement that Bermudians married to non-Bermudians would have to get a licence to own real estate would backfire.
An editorial warned that while the goal of preventing “fronting” was justified, the method w...
DATE: Feb 22, 2012
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Blaming society for criminal behaviour has become such a cliché that many people simply disregard it when trying to understand why people commit serious crimes. But the letter written by campaigner Sheelagh Cooper on behalf of Noet Barnett gives vast...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012
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A great many positive things have been written and said about Alf Oughton, who died last week, and it is unnecessary to repeat them all here. But what is indisputable is that Mr Oughton, a former Senate President and before that, chief general manage...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012
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Ombudsman Arlene Brock has every right to launch investigations off her own bat if it is the public interest.
So Environment Minister Marc Bean was wrong to criticise her when he took her to task for her report on Government’s Special Development Ord...
DATE: Feb 20, 2012
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