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Healthcare reform chimes with our core principles

Curtis Williams: The PLP supports a health system that protects the public, giving every resident access to healthcare and the opportunity to continue to be healthy.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR / OUR CURRENT MALAISE

Letter: Greed has supplanted the intrinsic values we once shared

In response to the recent comments by Sir John Swan regarding our current economic status, I think his proposals are symptomatic of the malaise that we currently find ourselves in.

Early judging on Miss Bermuda is wrong

How well will Miss Bermuda, Jana Outerbridge, do in the Miss World competition? Ric Chapman has the tell of the tape.

REMEMBRANCE DAY

Great wars have gone but terrorist attacks are here to stay

Larry Burchall: In 2011, some 93 years after the end of WWl, and 66 years after the end of WWll, it does seem possible that the era of huge global shooting wars is over.

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Hard work, tenacity and talent can clear most hurdles

Maggie Fogarty: Should we be bothered that the opportunity for upward mobility has declined amongst the lower socio economic groups? If you believe in true meritocracy... then yes it should matter.
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Solutions needed after controversial planning decision

Tom Vesey: More often than not, racism is perpetuated by systems and institutions going about their normal business, happily unaware of the racial consequences of what they do.

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Everyone has a role in saving our island

Swan and Burchall: The Regeneration of Bermuda’s Economy initiative was started to try and get a dialogue going about Bermuda’s economy and the effect that it is having on each Bermudian.

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Bermuda is at a crossroads

John Swan: Our standard of living is being critically threatened by events both inside and outside of Bermuda. Here's what we need do to protect it.

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Beware the empty promises of indecisive politicians

Tom Vesey: Government's specific commitments are outweighed by calls to action that are so vague as to be almost meaningless.

Statistics alone rarely tell the whole story

Maggie Fogarty: As the old saying goes we have "lies, damn lies and statistics". If you believe the mathematicians we also have "truth, damn truth and statistics".
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Finance, not tourism, is the key to our future prosperity

Swan and Burchall: Bermuda and Bermudians must forever abandon the idea of reviving tourism to the state and status that tourism occupied between 1920 and 1990.

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Graffiti is hate crime and an 'assault on our eyes'

Maggie Fogarty: Graffiti is offensive to look at but it is saying to the wider community "this is my view of the world and stuff the rest of you."

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Sex, guns and booze - subjects fit for a singalong?

Ric Chapman on radio censoring: We are not allowed to hear swear words... because, presumably that offends people. Yet we can hear about threesomes and people murdering others!

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Our love affair with tourism is over, we must move on

Larry Burchall: A variety of social, demographic, and technological changes have forever altered Bermuda's tourism product and Bermudian relationships with tourists and tourism.

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Island's resilience shines through at this time of year

Maggie Fogarty: To say that this year’s Christmas boat parade was simply spectacular barely does it justice.
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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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