LARRY BURCHALL
How we should counter the 'tax haven' label
Deserved or not, Bermuda's reputation as a 'tax haven' has grown. Even Pope Benedict XVl is preaching against us.
How come the private schools do better, with fewer staff?
Again! One little nugget of information and the layers of lies and deceit that can enwrap a whole problem peel away as the problem opens up and bares itself.
We need more police action, more prison cells, longer jail sentences
One dead. Four wounded. What was the point of the killing? There was no point! Just one more pointless death.
PART III OF III
Tourism alone can't sustain us financially
If today's pie-in-the-sky becomes tomorrow's pie-on-the-table; if Bermuda gets back to a national stock of 8,000 hotel beds; and if Bermuda retains enough of the international business mass that we now have; Bermuda will have maintained an existing though precarious economic balance.
Premier's slippery stunts take us downhill all the way
We didn't know before, but we know now. Dr Ewart Brown is an excellent skier. That was a long hip-twisting ankle-turning slalom run from June 11-20. It ended with a flourish - at the bottom of the slope. Downhill all the way.
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Has the PLP lost its sense of right and wrong?
Conspicuous by her silence in the controversy surrounding the ex-Guantanamo Bay inmates is our Attorney General, Senator Kim Wilson.
Timeline: the Gitmo Four - what happened and when
With all the fuss and explanations about the four Uyghurs, here is my definitive, factual, and honest recount of what actually took place; who did or said what and when events occurred; who knew what was happening; who did not know what was happening. The information comes from official sources …
PART 3 OF 4
Despite years of sluggish thinking, we can still turn the school system around
Bermuda's current and future national economic model requires Bermudian people who are numerate, literate and good critical thinkers.
FIXING OUR SCHOOLS / A FOUR-PART SERIES
Over-staffed system has churned out an underclass
Twenty years of public education failure and mismatch resulted in students who 'dropped out' or who graduated but were materially under-educated - and who then got older.
Byrne and Butterfield, call me out
Philip Butterfield is CEO HSBC, plc (Bank of Bermuda Ltd). Mark Byrne is executive chairman of Flagstone Reinsurance. Both reside in Bermuda. Both operate businesses in Bermuda. Both are intelligent and articulate. Both are successful in their personal and business lives.
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SHOOTINGS/CONTEXT
Shootings are all too common here
Gun violence is no longer massively major news but a regular occurrence.
We have a unique connection with the monarchy
Bermuda's 400-year existence and its connections with the U.K. highlight this visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll.
SPECIAL REPORT: SHOOTINGS
We've been pouring fuel on this fire for years
The shootings make the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth this year. The fifteenth and sixteenth with hits. The death is the third. Am I callous about the deaths? No. Like every one else, I'm hardening.
Killing spree is rendering people deaf and blind
The style of Perry Puckerin's killing at Hamilton Parish Workman's Club reminds me of IRA pub killings in the 1970s in Northern Ireland. Or Mafia-style assassinations.
National debt could top half a billion dollars
The Ministry of Finance's blue Budget Book reports that on March 31st 2007, Net Public Debt was $198,159,000. In December 2009, reporting to the House of Assembly, the Minister for Finance reported that "Net Public Debt" now stood at $483,300,000.
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