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Dear Sir,
The Government is doing a good job ensuring that people keep a safe distance and is being proactive with an evening curfew. Also the businesses assisting with health workers to get back and forth to the hospital are to be congratulated.
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DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Maybe the recent actions of the refuse collectors and now the bus drivers should lend impetus to change once we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic? Privatise all public transport and waste collection services.
Those running these busines...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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Dear Sir,
First I want to extend my prayers to the entire Bermudian community. We are all labouring under the new circumstances, and I pray that our island home stays safe.
But lately there seems to be a lot of conversations regarding kites — partic...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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Dear Sir,
There are several major problems facing Bermuda’s future; one of these is a dwindling population. One of the significant contributing reasons is the cost of health insurance.
I have 11 friends who have sold out and moved elsewhere because o...
DATE: Apr 08, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Ada Nyabongo (1926-2020), who was laid to rest on April 3, was a remarkable woman. While I salute her for earning a doctorate in musicology from New York University, this was only a small part of the woman I called “Aunt Ada”.
I lived in h...
DATE: Apr 08, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Bermuda may not be changed significantly by this pandemic, if the contagion doesn’t reach critical mass, but Europe, China and North America have already changed in ways that will affect the island, which most Bermudians already realise.
On...
DATE: Apr 04, 2020
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Dear Sir,
It seems to me that the time has arrived where it is OK to do and be wrong.
It seems OK these days to elect people to positions of power and trust who are prepared to commit moral crimes against humanity and have the backing of a large grou...
DATE: Apr 03, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Let me introduce you to Bermuda’s new status quo — our public education.
For context, I refer you to the year 2013, when our public schools’ mathematics and science results had a very poor IGCSE showing, with only 19 per cent of students g...
DATE: Apr 01, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Health minister Kim Wilson signed a closure notice on March 28, listing entities that are now mandated to close their operations because of Covid-19.
On the list were obvious group-gathering entities and businesses where proximity enhances ...
DATE: Mar 31, 2020
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Dear Sir,
There is this old saying about sheep going over the cliff because their leaders directed them to do so.
Mr Editor, I wish to play the role of a mountain goat. You may have noticed how a mountain goat is able to balance himself on the edge ...
DATE: Mar 31, 2020
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