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It’s graduation season. At the Bermuda College this week, a new crop of freshly minted graduates were offered sage advice on life and the never-ending pursuit of knowledge and excellence by Opposition senator Kim Wilkerson, the commencement speaker. ...
DATE: May 21, 2016
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Nelson Hunt is not likely to be furnished with a gun permit after he has had his chat with the Premier. That much we can virtually guarantee. But it is evidently clear that recent events have triggered an attitude within right-thinking Bermudians who...
DATE: May 03, 2016
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At the outset of his political career he posed, and then proceeded to answer to his own satisfaction, what remains among the most vexing questions in Bermudian public life. In his “Am I Being Used?” speech delivered to a City Hall audience during the...
DATE: Apr 20, 2016
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At last, it’s under way. The work of the Commission of Inquiry into the Auditor-General’s scathing reports on the Bermuda Government’s finances between 2010 and 2012 has started.
Expectations from the public will be high — and rightly so. The slipsho...
DATE: Apr 14, 2016
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Generally speaking, you actually are what you eat. And if you eat a diet consistently high in sugar, processed food and saturated fat, you are more likely than not a diabetic-in-waiting.
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Bermuda, at once one of th...
DATE: Apr 09, 2016
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As Somerset Trojans prepared to bow out of the Caribbean Club Championship in Haiti in late February, coach Kieshon Smith reopened a very stale can of worms. Not unimportant, mind, but stale all the same, for the lack of attention given to his concer...
DATE: Apr 04, 2016
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A hand-lettered sign was recently erected near the entrance to Hamilton, one both heartfelt and heartbreaking.
It was a plea to save Gilbert Institute after the release of an education ministry reorganisation plan that included the Paget Parish prim...
DATE: Mar 01, 2016
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The 2015 Labour Force Survey released last month revealed that unemployment in Bermuda had dropped to 7 per cent. That was a cause of celebration for some, without going over the top, while others bemoaned that the “real” figures — the numbers behind...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016
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Not one death on Bermuda’s roads is acceptable. And after a weekend when the country has buried one young man, while two fortunate others are recuperating in hospital, our leaders must continue to grapple with ways by which we can reach farther into ...
DATE: Jan 11, 2016
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Coming as it does less than a fortnight after Michael DeSilva outlined the way forward for the Bermuda Police Service over the next three years, yesterday’s release from the union whose mandate it is to safeguard the welfare of the officers who will ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2015
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