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“This is not who we are, this is not what we want to be known for, this is not the way of life we want for ourselves or for our children.”
So said Darrin Simons, the Acting Commissioner of Police, in the wake of Tuesday’s mass shooting in the Robin H...
DATE: Oct 29, 2021
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It may be difficult to believe as deaths continue to mount from the latest outbreak of Covid-19, but Bermuda is recovering from what has been by all measures the worst coronavirus crisis the island has yet experienced.
That’s not to say we are out o...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Today, The Royal Gazette reports on a gloomy report from Bermuda financial adviser Anchor Investment Management, which confirms what many people will already have felt in their wallets: the Bermuda economy’s rebound has stalled.
After the Covid-19 l...
DATE: Oct 08, 2021
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The fault lines that have emerged over Bermuda’s approach to the Covid-19 crisis and especially towards vaccination are deeply worrying.
It is easy to forget, when the sound and the fury are loudest, that the vast majority of Bermuda residents have a...
DATE: Oct 06, 2021
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It looked like the dispute that has taken the public bus service off the road for the past 12 days was coming to an end last night. It is not before time.
There are and were no winners in this deadlock.
The bus drivers had moved from cutting off th...
DATE: Sep 30, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The 17 coronavirus-related deaths announced between Friday and Monday shattered the final hopes of anyone clinging to the idea that somehow this fourth wave of Covid-19 was less severe than its predecessors.
Those in power — starting with David Burt,...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The Government has mismanaged the latest outbreak of the coronavirus. It is that simple.
Having managed the coronavirus well in 2020 — and been rewarded at the polls as a result — the Progressive Labour Party government’s handling of the present outb...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The first rules to apply when trying to persuade people to change their minds are to pick an issue that is relatively straightforward and then to keep your argument as simple as possible.
The campaign by the Bermuda Industrial Union to overturn the ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The news that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for full use should be welcomed.
Bermuda has been fortunate to have received the vaccine in large amounts from Britain, as a result of which 65 per cent of th...
DATE: Aug 25, 2021
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The Bermuda Industrial Union is threatening to hold a two-day strike next week over the issue of whether an employee has the right to decide on continuing to be represented by a trade union, regardless if that employee is a union member or not.
The t...
DATE: Aug 24, 2021
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