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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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A little more than a year-and-a-half ago, a reporter asked me and other political and community leaders whether the abatement, or lull, in gun violence in Bermuda then signalled that that horrific trend had come to its long overdue end.
I essentially...
DATE: Jun 10, 2016
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“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam, while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I am not going 10,000...
DATE: Jun 07, 2016
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Charles Asnavour and Frank Sinatra once wrote a ballad called Young at Heart and the opening lyrics to the legendary song say that “fairy tales can come true; they can happen to you”.
Certainly the Canadian redevelopers of the airport comprised of th...
DATE: Apr 26, 2016
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We all know that polls are only snapshots of a certain point in time. And we also know that politicians usually say that to comfort themselves when a particularly dismal poll result proves to be unflattering at best and a devastating indictment at wo...
DATE: Apr 06, 2016
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After having read the story carried by The Royal Gazette on Saturday that highlighted the more salient aspects of the recent debate as it unfolded in the House of Assembly, I decided to convey the following.
That news report which ran under the head...
DATE: Mar 08, 2016
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The election last Thursday marked the day when the petals firmly came off the fading red rose that is the One Bermuda Alliance government.
This loss by its candidate, Andrew Simons, to now MP and former senator Diallo Rabain was by any measure extrao...
DATE: Feb 11, 2016
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In an era where Donald Trump is asserting the privilege to be as racist as he wants to be while claiming that he is just being politically incorrect, we in Bermuda can watch the spectacle emerging to the west of us with little satisfaction.
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DATE: Dec 29, 2015
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The Progressive Labour Party’s 2025 vision statement also endorsed the Bermuda College partnering with the Bermuda Government to promote local “application development”.
• A PLP government will work through the Bermuda College to develop, maintain an...
DATE: Sep 24, 2015
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Rolfe Commissiong
In the first instalment that was published recently, I noted the previous mountains that we as Bermudians have climbed throughout our history, successfully.
I believe that our response to this challenge will be no different for once Bermudians percei...
DATE: Sep 22, 2015
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