OPINION
OPINION / PART 2 OF 2
Promises on Government spending do not match the reality
I do not believe that this Minister for Finance can exercise the quality of financial control that Bermuda and good financial management requires.
OPINION / BUDGET 2011
Call to accountants: Help root out the devil in the Budget's detail
Larry Burchall believes financial sins are still catching up with us and gets a whiff of skullduggery. He asks Bermuda's accountants to make themselves heard.
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Threatened site is home to globally important cave system
The Tucker's Point area is the richest source of caves in Bermuda. In addition to their own incredible beauty, they feature species of plants and animals found nowhere else in the world.
Tucker's Point SDO will kill tourism rather than revive it
Just about every Bermudian is nostalgic for the glory days of tourism and desperately hopes that somehow, someway, sometime, they can happen again. But just about every Bermudian has been taken advantage of because of this sacred dream.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Letter: Bermudian jobs will be lost unless the SDO is approved
Please allow me to present a case for the SDO. Tucker's Point directly employs 243 employees, over 90 per cent are Bermudian.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Letter: The Trippes have been respectful and I support the SDO
I would like to share with you my mother's and my appreciation to the respect, concern and interest of our family ancestry grave site located at the foot of the Tucker's Point Golf Club driving range.
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Barbara Ball was shunned by whites for helping blacks
Sometimes national heroes and national game changers come in outsize packets. Others sneak in, almost unnoticed. Dr. Barbara Ball was a national game changer who sneaked on to our national stage, made changes and then, just as quietly, went off.
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The fractional unit model simply does not work here
Tucker's Point Club needs to go the way of all failed business projects. Let it fail. Let it drop back into the financial market where another risk-taker will step forward and snap it up.
OPINION: TUCKER'S POINT SDO DEBATE
A black government dancing to a white man's tune
Right up to that dramatic moment when the Government caved in and withdrew, the whole SDO imbroglio was an extremely interesting and utterly fascinating exercise.
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Payroll tax rollback won't put more cash in your pocket
The Finance Minister promises to "return approximately $50 million". The Health Minister raises premiums for HIP insurance by 28.8%. Ask yourself, what in heck is going on?
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OPINION: SPECIAL REPORT ON TOURISM
Bermuda has to re-price itself into a niche market
Will Bermuda be able to return to its heyday Tourism of the three golden decades of the 1960s to 1980s? No. Too much has changed.
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St George's must become a working town to thrive
It will take the combined efforts of a rejuvenated business community, cooperative residential community and the support of a more understanding government to reverse the effects of neglect that beset our beloved Old Town.
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MPs must start taking responsibility for spending cuts
When elections roll round, the politicians stand up front and centre and take credit for, well, just about everything that is good. But what happens in times like these, when there is no election and plenty of bad news to be shared?
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We underestimate international business at our peril
Larry Burchall: Every so often, someone does something that terrifies or embarrasses me. This time it was Kim Wilson, Minister for the Economy, and Kevin Grant, president of the BPSU.
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Gang law could violate our civil liberties
Leroy Bean: There has been a lot of talk over the past few weeks about anti-gang legislation. It is the kind of policy that sounds tough on paper. But I have serious reservations.
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