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For virtually the first time since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government is experiencing sustained criticism of its handling of the crisis.
Perhaps because of the novelty of taking fire from within the Progressive Labour Party and w...
DATE: Jul 02, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch insisted in the House of Assembly last Friday that the demolition of the historic house Wantley will go ahead despite objections from community organisations.
The Minister of Public Works defended the decision in a sta...
DATE: Jun 22, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The Bermuda Industrial Union’s work-to-rule and overtime ban will do the union more harm than good.
But that may not stop it from escalating the dispute, and causing harm to the wider community on an issue where it has neither right nor logic on its...
DATE: Jun 16, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Bermuda has lived for decades with the spectre of foreign governments shattering the economy with the stroke of a pen.
Changing a few words in a tax code could cause immeasurable harm to international businesses, which has as one of its cornerstones...
DATE: Jun 15, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
It’s official. Bermuda has failed to achieve herd immunity from Covid-19.
On Tuesday, Bermuda administered the final first doses of its stock of the Covid-19 vaccine to recipients. As of Friday, 61 per cent of people had had at least one dose while ...
DATE: Jun 13, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Spare a little sympathy — just a little — for Clarien Bank.
When it announced that it was giving $100,000 to assist Black and members of other underrepresented groups to pay their school fees at private schools, its executives presumably expected to...
DATE: May 26, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Bermuda is considering implementing a minimum wage. It should proceed with caution.
Simple supply and demand would appear to dictate that if wages were increased, then this would lead to a fall in jobs as employers controlled rising costs by reducin...
DATE: May 19, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
It would be an indictment on Bermuda if it failed to use up the stock of Covid-19 vaccines that has been generously provided by the British Government and, more recently, the Covax organisation.
There are countries of millions of people, often poore...
DATE: May 14, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Forty years ago today, Bermuda was rocked by what would become the island's first and, to date, only general strike. The ramifications of that strike remain with the island to this day.
Bermuda was a different place in 1981 than it is in 2021. The fi...
DATE: May 05, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The effort to contain the pandemic has often been compared to a war. Although imprecise, the comparison is apt.
In that context, there is, despite the recent and tragic surge in cases and deaths, a sense that Bermuda is moving to the beginning of the...
DATE: May 03, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion