Vexed Bermoothes

Bermuda’s rolling barrage of fuss means that important issues are just forgotten by the wayside. One of those issues is that fact that our Government, with its ballooning budgets has not produced accounts for some of its operations since 2002. That’s not The Gold Standard™ that’s appalling. It seems our Parliament […]

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A KBB cleanup just found 90 car batteries thrown in the bushes on North Shore. That’s not litter, that’s a toxic waste site.
It cannot be hard to find the garage (or their trucker) that is illegally dumping one and a half tons of hazardous materials in the bushes. This should be treated as […]

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Dr. Brown’s revenge fantasy on the Royal Gazette has also attracted coverage in the Press Gazette, a popular magazine for journalists.
[Royal Gazette editor Bill Zuill] said “My own view is that Sunshine Week was the final nail in the coffin for government. They may have sped up a plan that was already in place to […]

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Life’s too short to watch CITV when there’s Spongebob and that pink-haired church lady on other channels. My position may change when they start providing complete live coverage of the House and Senate.
But I doubt it: a Government station that produces programmes promoting Government policies is a propaganda vehicle. Period. The […]

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Like most locals, I am distressed and angry over the news of the fatality on Saturday morning, followed by the drunk bike crash near Horsehoe on Sunday night.
At this year’s fatality rate, we could have 20 dead on the roads by December. If we maintain April’s accelerated rate of carnage, we’ll top 30. […]

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It does not make sense to me that our Government invests huge sums every year in projects like the African Diaspora Trail, that are so remote from lives of Bermudians and unlikely to contribute to our community or economy, but will not make any effort to preserve elements of our own local black history.
Like Cobbs […]

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The first time the Road Safety Council staged roadside wrecks, a year ago, it was effective. The second time, it started to turn into a drama project. Next time it will probably have Gombeys.
Some towns in the US take this approach with high school students. If a kid is killed in a […]

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While Bermuda continues to fart around, Cayman Islands have moved to the next stage of implementing “freedom of information” (FOI).
You may recall that - after Bermuda announced that it would pursue PATI - Cayman picked up the cause, drafted legislation and sought input from international experts such as the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, then revised […]

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The news is speculating that Dr. Brown’s acolytes carry weapons.

Is it about security, or about looking important? Or, one might say, about looking presidential?

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During the election, the PLP demonised the UBP as being “too tough on crime.” With that in mind, now tell me which party is which:

One party wants Bermuda to compile a database of DNA profiles for all people who are convicted of a crime.
One party wants Bermuda to compile a database of DNA profiles […]

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