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“If we do not follow the rules which are in place now or the rules which may be necessary to implement in the future, the estimation is that over 700 Bermudians can die from this virus.” — David Burt, Premier of Bermuda
The Premier, subsequently, al...
DATE: Apr 30, 2020
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“Five thousand, three hundred and forty-one persons in Bermuda are without health insurance.”
— The Ministry of Health
“Our aim is to provide universal access to healthcare through these reforms while bending the cost curve downwards.”
— Kim Wilson...
DATE: Nov 20, 2019
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First, I wish to commend LeYoni Junos, who was featured in a couple of articles in relation to her research work in respect to the iconic figure of Mary Prince, a Bermudian-born slave of African descent. The research she has undertaken to further exp...
DATE: Aug 03, 2019
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That white males earn 70 per cent more than black men in the category of personal income with respect to full-time employment of those aged 16 and above in the 2016 census should be pause for significant concern.
Similarly, the companion statistic t...
DATE: May 11, 2018
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Rolfe Commissiong
The following is a revised speech given at the PLP Annual Delegates Conference
Never in the annals of our modern political history in this country has a political party swept all before it in the manner that occurred on July 18, 2017.
It was a victo...
DATE: Nov 02, 2017
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“When I came here a number of years ago, Bermuda was a place where someone with ambition and without a college education could get a job in the hotel industry or in the trades and earn a middle-class standard of living. Those days are over now.”
— Sh...
DATE: Jul 03, 2017
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What was largely left unsaid during the recently concluded Presidential election campaign that saw the election of Donald J. Trump, was that trade treaties and their impact was not the whole picture when it came to the issue of the decline of well-pa...
DATE: Jan 10, 2017
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The new year is likely to usher in a year of monumental change in the West, including Bermuda and the world at large; and not all will be of the feel good, cuddly variety. How could it be with Donald J. Trump set to assume the office of president of ...
DATE: Jan 07, 2017
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On November 13, Carolyn Young, the wife of labour icon Kenyatta Young, who predeceased her, was laid to rest at St John’s Church in Pembroke. Sister Carolyn may not have been known to some Bermudians, but I can assure you that to most black Bermudian...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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The political scientist and theorist Francis Fukuyama in a 1989 essay once wrote that with the triumph of Western liberal values — the precursor to neoliberalism at the end of the Cold War — that that would signal an end to history itself.
Well, on J...
DATE: Jun 28, 2016
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