Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 13 October 2005 The other day, Premier Alex Scott accidentally sent me an email from his Blackberryi Dated 30 September 2005, the message appeared to be intended for Beverle Lottimore, director of the Government’s Department of...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 6 October 2005 Almost one year ago, Bermuda’s gay community were celebrating. Last November, Minister of Community Affairs Dale Butler announced that the Government would be extending the Human Rights Act to make it illegal to...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 29 September 2005 Earlier this year, Dame Lois Browne Evans made a rather odd comment. During a meeting of the Bermuda Independence Commission, she suggested that independence could pave the way for the reintroduction of capital...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 22 September 2005 Amid the bias and the editorialising that suffused the final report of the much-maligned Bermuda Independence Commission (BIC) there was one recommendation that, of itself, justified that body’s existence. The report explicitly acknowledged...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 15 September 2005 When hurricane Nate swept past Bermuda last week, bringing only a little rain and a bit of wind, I have to admit I was disappointed. I’d been egging it on since it was...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 8 September 2005 When it comes to stupid ideas, I used to think that drinking alcohol and then getting into a car was one of the stupidest. To my mind, it was up there with riding...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 1 September 2005 The PLP intends to throw the next election and allow the UBP to return to poweri The astonishing news was revealed to this newspaper in an exclusive interview with a highly placed PLP...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Friday 26 August 2005 Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” is one of the most inspiring books I have read. First published in 1989, the book has sold over 15 million copies and is...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 18 August 2005 I live in St. George’s. Every weekday morning, at around 8.15am, I get into my car and drive to Hamilton. In the evening, usually around 5.45pm, I drive home again. The journey each...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 11 August 2005 Last Friday I returned from a four-day trip to Boston. Staggering back through the airport with bags bursting with my purchases, surrounded by Bermudians similarly laden down, I began to wonder just how...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 21 July 2005 As The Bermudian celebrates 15 years of the Best of Bermuda Gold Awards, here in this cold, damp cave, away from the balloons and the back-slapping, your bitter columnist nurses his bile. Passed...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Saturday 16 July 2005 Last Friday, the Royal Gazette did an unusual thing. It put a foreign news story on the front page. The story, of course, was the terrorist attack in London, in which at least...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 7 July 2005 Imagine if every MP in the UBP was white. Suppose for a moment that, when questioned about the lack of black faces in his party, Grant Gibbons shrugged his shoulders and said that...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 30 June 2005 At one of the recent public meetings on sustainable development, a member of the audience lamented the rapid pace of development in Bermuda. “Do you want to live in Hong Kong?” he asked....
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 23 June 2005 Tucked away at the easternmost end of Bermuda is the Town of St. George. Bermuda’s only World Heritage site, it’s also my home. Most Bermudians may only bother to visit once or twice...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 16 June 2005 I have a lot of sympathy for Alex Scott. Being the leader of a country – or even a small Island – can’t be an easy job. Whatever you do, you’re pretty much...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 9 June 2005 Should Bermuda relax its laws on marijuana use? Most readers of A Limey In Bermuda seem to think so. According to the current results of an unscientific poll on this site, 22% of...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 2 June 2005 Last month, Health Minister Patrice Minors revealed plans to restrict smoking in public places such as bars and restaurants. Legislation could be tabled by the end of the year. An increasing number of...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 26 May 2005 Last week another young man lost his life on Bermuda’s roads. Cue the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth. Cue the politicians, pleading with us to slow down. Cue the columnists, bemoaning the...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 19 May 2005 Last Thursday, St. Brendan’s Hospital was renamed the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute. It was a stroke of genius. For years, people have struggled to find a way to remove the stigma of mental illness....
Royal Gazette Opinion, Friday 13 May 2005 On a small Philippine island some seventy-five miles south-west of Manila, a Japanese soldier emerges from the jungle. Carrying a .25 calibre rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades, he meets...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 5 May 2005 As you read this, the British are going to the polls to elect a new government. They’re essentially being offered a choice between two men. One is Labour’s Tony Blair, a man who...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 28 April 2005 Hi. My name is Phil and I’m addicted to video games. My relationship with my father is to blame. Back in the 1970s, when I was growing up, video games were starting to...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 21 April 2005 One of the most surprising things to emerge during Bermuda’s independence debate is the number of Bermudians who have said that they don’t have a sense of national pride. At the recent meetings...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 31 March 2005 “Having a kid changes everything. I mean, there’s the diapers and the burping and the midnight feedings... Then you spend years trying to corrupt and mislead this child, fill its head with nonsense...
Royal Gazette Opinion, Thursday 24 March 2005 Bermuda’s 2003 general election was a low point in the fortunes of independent or third-party candidates. There were only three candidates who were not from one of the two main parties. Between them,...
Royal Gazette Opinion, 17 March 2005 - unedited version Sometimes it seems that barely a day goes by without Bermuda’s press coming under fire from the Government. Renee Webb, a big fan of blaming the media, once described Bermuda’s press...
Royal Gazette Opinion, 9 March 2005 The introduction of speed cameras on Bermuda’s roads came a step closer last week when Minister of Labour, Home Affairs and Public Safety, Randy Horton, announced that $100,000 has been put aside for them...
Royal Gazette Opinion, 2 March 2005 One of the things that I disliked about living in London was the fact that you could go shopping on a Sunday. The trouble with this was that my wife loves to shop. Unless...
Royal Gazette Opinion, 24 February 2005 Last week, a concerned parent sent me the student workbook used to teach the Ashay Rites of Passage programme at Dellwood Middle School. The school had repeatedly refused my requests to see the curriculum....
Royal Gazette Opinion, 17 February 2005 When it comes to tipping, I'm with Mr. Pink. In the classic opening scene of Quentin Tarantino's 1992 movie Reservoir Dogs the would-be robber is sat in a cafe eating breakfast with his partners...
Royal Gazette Opinion, 10 February 2005 One of the greatest things about Bermuda is its tax code. There’s no income tax. Payroll tax is laughably low. And arguably more important still, residents are spared the agony of filing an annual...
Royal Gazette Opinion, 3 February 2005 In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, President George Bush issued a challenge to the countries of the world: "You're either with us or against us in the...
Royal Gazette Opinion, 27 January 2005 (unedited version, with the pun on the UPS slogan still intact in the title) Last Monday, Minister of Tourism Dr. Ewart Brown delivered a speech in which he outlined the Government’s plan for reviving...
Royal Gazette Opinion, 20 January 2005 Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Eddie Lamb recently described the Bermuda Regiment as probably the last organisation that can rescue Bermuda’s young men caught up in a life of drugs and violence. His depiction of...
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