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.
OPINION
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.
OPINION
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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OPINION
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.
OPINION
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.
OPINION
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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