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“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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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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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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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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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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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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Norbert Simons first met Clevonte Lodge-Bean when he was a student at Whitney Institute Middle School.
Mr Simons, a teacher and athletics coach, recognised immediately that the young man, not yet in his teens, had a rare talent for sprinting — still ...
DATE: Nov 24, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
Just six weeks ago, on October 5, Bermuda had a total of two active Covid-19 cases, the lowest number since the pandemic took hold.
As of yesterday, there were 19 active cases, but the number had risen to as high as 27 at one point this month. Fortun...
DATE: Nov 20, 2020
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On the heels of its historic mandate, the Government laid out an ambitious programme in its Throne Speech delivered last Friday in the Town of St George.
Four hundred years after Bermuda’s legislature met in St Peter’s Church for the first time, the ...
DATE: Nov 12, 2020
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