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Bermuda appears to have survived the second Covid-19 spike that forced a mini-lockdown over Christmas and into this month.
The Government further relaxed restrictions on bars, restaurants and other social activities last week, while ending the curfew...
DATE: Feb 22, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Minister A: “In order to combat the harsh realities resulting from a population decline we need positive net immigration; that is less emigration or people leaving the country to live elsewhere, and more immigration or people entering the country to...
DATE: Feb 12, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Economists, perhaps conscious of the difficulties of accurate economic forecasting, are reluctant to engage in hyperbole. Even if the sky was falling, they would find a way to explain why it might not happen, or why it might actually be a good thing....
DATE: Jan 27, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
“There’s a plague that is killing Black people, at a rate that should make everyone outraged! If Covid were killing White people at the rate it is killing Black people, you better believe that everyone would be wearing masks. Because it would be ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The One Bermuda Alliance senator Marcus Jones made the unfathomable decision this week to express his support for impeached and disgraced American president Donald Trump.
It appears Mr Jones thought his message, apparently posted to a religious group...
DATE: Jan 19, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The year 2020 is one that we would love to forget. But we can’t. It and its after-effects will linger well into this new year and beyond for all the pain and suffering it has caused — and will continue to cause.
However, out of some of the gloomiest ...
DATE: Jan 04, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The obituaries are being written for 2020.
The common theme is good riddance and bring on 2021. This has indeed been one of the most difficult years in living memory. Only people who are in their mid-eighties or older will recall 1940, when the futur...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
In July 2017, the Progressive Labour Party released its General Election platform.
In it, it pledged to “reform public education by phasing out middle schools and introducing signature schools at the secondary level, which focus on the learning style...
DATE: Dec 23, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
The new owner of the Ascendant Group and its Belco subsidiary probably did not expect the first event of its new ownership to be an island-wide blackout. Nor can it be blamed for it.
But the lack of explanation by Belco for the catastrophic outage is...
DATE: Dec 22, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, has received generally high marks for his handling of the economic and financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
He has, rightly but with a suitable show of reluctance and many expressions of regret, ...
DATE: Dec 04, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion