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The One Bermuda Alliance leadership challenge, which came to its conclusion on Saturday with the election of Jean Atherden, failed to generate the type of interest that would signal enthusiasm. Perhaps because the prospects are too familiar and, with...
DATE: Nov 21, 2017
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The gay rights debate continues in public and on social media, as the thorny subject of comparing the issue of same-sex marriage and gay rights to the Civil Rights Movement and the racism experienced by blacks over the centuries raises the ire of som...
DATE: Nov 16, 2017
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One of the most fundamental and important things when faced with any problem is to have the proper diagnosis. This has become particularly apparent in the medical field where teams of doctors and other medical professionals will look at a patient and...
DATE: Nov 11, 2017
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“Aim for the stars and land on the moon”
I was involved in a recent initiative with a group of men and we were given a task. Not oddly and true to life, if there is a group of 20, you can have 20 different ideas as to how to scale the mountain or b...
DATE: Oct 30, 2017
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Watching a documentary on Nigeria recently was a reminder of the bound-up potential that exists in many African countries. It’s not the resources that are lacking or the ambition and resourcefulness of the people, because they are highly motivated fo...
DATE: Oct 27, 2017
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The Iranian nuclear agreement. Unratified but support for which was not fully withdrawn. But yet it remains not supported. Confusion abounds over a nuclear arms non-proliferation agreement that is filled with misunderstanding; in particular when the ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2017
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The proposed redress of the Human Rights Act so that it loses primacy over the immigration Act as proposed by Minister of Home Affairs Walton Brown stirred a little firestorm of criticism from activists who fear the legislation is a step to weaken th...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Albert Nicholl the philanthropist, aside from formerly being engaged in deep military service, lived an eclectic life but would be better known and remembered more in Bermuda for his generosity.
Some of the beneficiaries of his generosity were the f...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Bermuda has materially changed and the differences that have occurred within just a couple of generations are staggering and are yet to be fully appreciated. I have a Wall Street friend who remembers as an outsider trying to get in and penetrate the ...
DATE: Oct 14, 2017
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Did we learn anything from the Ritz-Carlton/Golden Hind fiasco a couple of decades ago? For those who need a reminder, the proposed Ritz-Carlton hotel development was essentially a done deal: the land was acquired, the funds were in hand and everythi...
DATE: Oct 12, 2017
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