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There has been a lot of debate since Friday about the absolute discharge given to 72-year-old Egbert Haywood, who was caught leaving the Island with a gun he said he had accidentally left in his luggage when he left for Bermuda.
Many people have not...
DATE: Dec 12, 2011
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Wednesday’s story about the surge in demand for food from needy families illustrates the harrowing effects of the recession.
But it also demonstrates just how generous Bermudians can be, and that they recognise that they are their brother’s (and sist...
DATE: Dec 09, 2011
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The furore over Future Care and what it is now charging seniors for operations raises more questions than answers.
Health Minister Zane DeSilva has stated that a computer system error meant that patients should have been paying 25 percent of local su...
DATE: Dec 09, 2011
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The Police Service’s Stop and Search policy has come under scrutiny recently.
Some might say this was overdue, but the fact it has gained little public attention until now is due to the fact that it has only been in widespread use comparatively rece...
DATE: Dec 07, 2011
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There is a lot to recommend in the Tourism Board’s strategic plan, even if few of the ideas are new.
While the proposal to legalise gambling and open a casino is the most controversial, the recommendation that a tourism authority be put in place cou...
DATE: Dec 06, 2011
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There was good news in the House of Assembly on Friday when Economy Minister Patrice Minors announced that one of the worst decisions made in the last ten years was being “relaxed”.
This was the “return to sender” rule for minor address mistakes. De...
DATE: Dec 05, 2011
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It is hard not to be ambivalent about the idea of decriminalisation of drugs, or even of relaxing conviction and sentencing guidelines.
On the one hand, it is surely obvious that the “war on drugs” is not working. Making drug addicts criminals has in...
DATE: Dec 01, 2011
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The late Sir John Plowman, a veteran of years of lawmaking, was fond of warning against unintended consequences. A law or policy could be enacted, with the best of intentions, only to cause all kinds of unforeseen problems.
In fact, the problems can...
DATE: Nov 29, 2011
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Friday’s editorial on tourism was wrong in one serious respect. Although very little had been said previously about the Ministry of Tourism hiring an advertising agency, on Friday, there was an advertisement for just that.
So that’s good news. It is...
DATE: Nov 29, 2011
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Normally a near two-percent contraction in the economy would be unwelcome news. But the fact the Gross Domestic Product for 2010 was projected to have declined by as much as five percent means that the figures released last week are grounds for relie...
DATE: Nov 28, 2011
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