OPINION

OPINION

Expanding drugs import list demands careful planning, clear answers

Katherine Michelmore: Too often this government has acted without proper planning and control, and it for this reason that we want the Minister to provide Bermuda with greater clarity about his plans.

It's misleading to take our figures out of context

Larry Burchall: Bermuda must always be analyzed first in Bermuda context and then in ordinary context.

SPECIAL REPORT: BERMUDA IN RECESSION

We must grasp new realities to recover from this slump

Martin Law: Only Bermuda can deal with Bermuda’s economy. Survival and economic success is up to all of us.

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Phone hacking scandal should not blind us to the good that journalists do

"In journalism there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right", Maggie Fogarty quoted on Wednesday regarding the UK's phone hacking scandal.

Lister's public trouncing could help the PLP

Although Transport Minister Terry Lister was political road kill last week in a news story, it was the best thing to happen to his party since the implosion of the Opposition.
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Government has led us into a classic debt trap

Larry Burchall: Government's 'clipping' process, to service National Debt, is heading the wrong way.

Letter: It's wrong to blame government and let parents off the hook

Instead of trying to ‘fix’ broken children, why can’t we move towards not creating broken children? Then we wouldn’t have to fix them.

Riots erupted from a potent mix of social ills

Maggie Fogarty: The London rioting did not come out of the blue - the cauldron has been simmering for some time and is a toxic mix.

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Economic growth is impossible without expats

Larry Burchall: Bermuda’s national economy will only turn around when the inflow of intellectual and dollar capital exceeds the outflow.

Doing nothing is not an option during tough economic times

Tom Vesey: There’s nothing quite like an economic downturn to cause “labour trouble”.
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Minister could become 'Top Cat' by dealing with ferals

Ric Chapman: Do you remember Top Cat? I hope Minister Walter Roban, JP, MP, and Minister of the Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Strategy, does.

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It's hard to find fault with the majority of Bda's bus drivers

Maggie Fogarty: We shouldn’t forget that for the most part the men and women who drive the trademark pink buses do a great job.

The OBA needs to offer something genuinely new

Tom Vesey: The OBA cannot emerge from its leadership contest as a slightly-modified version of the old UBP, walking and talking the way the UBP once did.

OPINION

Ida James was everything to this angry teenage girl

Victoria Pearman: Ida James was my teacher, my sister, my guardian, my counsellor, my friend - tears fall down like rain for this great soul whose business on this earth was unfinished.

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Primaries, a sign the PLP is moving away from paranoia

Tom Vesey: The PLP primaries that began this week are a remarkable development for Bermuda politics. It is part of a movement towards openness and democratic participation.
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The Bermuda Sun bids farewell...

JUL 30, 2014: It marked the end of an era as our printers and collators produced the very last edition of the Bermuda Sun.

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