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I don’t think there is much glamour in having the job of Premier of Bermuda any more; even if we were to take into account the transitional years of Sir Henry Tucker, who was climbing through the wall of segregation. At least for him, there was the o...
DATE: Feb 07, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
The book written by former finance minister Bob Richards, Bermuda — Back from the Brink, is an interesting read. Richards suffered politically because he was often considered as talking down to people. However, he did what some may consider as unchar...
DATE: Feb 01, 2018
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It is unfair and possibly unethical to posthumously attribute words or positions of individuals, particularly if they have not in their own lifetimes published them.
The interesting thing for me is having the rich opportunity of meeting and delibera...
DATE: Jan 18, 2018
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Usually, I like to stick to issues and let the politics fall on either side of the debate wherever it leads. However, politics itself is now trending, particularly when we have the re-emergence of the former home affairs minister Michael Fahy, whom m...
DATE: Jan 11, 2018
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The New Year’s Eve brawl at Bermuda’s premier resort, the Fairmont Southampton hotel, was jolting news that brought a cringeworthy reminder of the violence that terrorises families and threatens too many of our youth.
For some, this is seen as a pro...
DATE: Jan 06, 2018
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The United States just passed a tax code and it “trumps” the tax impositions that sparked the 18th-century French revolution.
The 2016 wave of populism that created this presidency has handed the greatest gift in American history to the fewer than 1...
DATE: Dec 30, 2017
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Today’s world of tourism is vastly different from the tourism of three decades ago. At the apex of our tourism industry, we reverted to the construction of larger hotels. The Fairmont Southampton epitomises that period and remains a successful instit...
DATE: Dec 19, 2017
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I am caught in a three-way intersection of interest, but no more enlightened and just as much in the dark as everyone else on an unresolved matter that needs clarity and an amicable resolution.
You see, I have not just heard about but have met some ...
DATE: Dec 13, 2017
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What began several years ago with the likes of the Bill Cosby scandal, which at best seemed an attempt to counter powerful men, including many celebrities who lived as though they had an untouchable entitlement as they used their clout to veil sexual...
DATE: Dec 06, 2017
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In opposite parts of the world and occurring at the same time during the 18th century, when the United States was borne out of a revolution and developing its Constitution enshrining religious freedom, a religious cleric by the name of Muhammad Ibn A...
DATE: Nov 28, 2017
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