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Although Bermuda and the world are consumed, rightly, with the Covid-19 crisis now, it will come to an end, and at that time other problems and policy issues facing Bermuda will return.
One such issue is education, and more particularly, public educ...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
Bermuda has its first two Covid-19 cases and almost certainly there will be more. At this point, Bermuda, to follow the coronavirus vernacular, is transitioning from the containment phase to the delay phase and, as best can be told, is trying to foll...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
The Bermuda Government has been given the benefit of the doubt throughout the coronavirus crisis. These indeed are unprecedented times and David Burt, his Cabinet and the health professionals charged with providing the best advice to our leaders have...
DATE: Mar 19, 2020
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For all but the most introverted among us, humans are social beings, gathering together to talk, work, worship, dance, commune with nature, learn and, often, just enjoy being in one another’s company.
This communion of souls does not simply serve as...
DATE: Mar 19, 2020
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No one would dispute that as Bermuda grapples with the prospect of the arrival of the Covid-19 coronavirus that the health and wellbeing of its residents must come first. Clearly, it is the responsibility of the Government and health authorities t...
DATE: Mar 18, 2020
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The Royal Gazette published an editorial last week that suggested that minimal spread of the coronavirus could be achieved in Bermuda if those who had travelled in the past fortnight and felt unwell simply stayed away from elderly people and those wi...
DATE: Mar 16, 2020
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The Covid-19 strain of coronavirus is enveloping the world and approaching pandemic status. With more than 112,000 persons infected worldwide and close to 4,000 deaths — albeit that more than 75 per cent of those fatalities occurred at “Ground Zero” ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2020
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Bermuda’s history has been inextricably tied to its economy. With no natural resources and situated 700 miles from the nearest land, its people have always known that economic growth is not just desirable — it is a matter of survival.
From early effo...
DATE: Feb 25, 2020
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Curtis Dickinson cannot have upset too many people with his Budget yesterday, given that most of us are concerned mainly with how any changes will affect our own immediate financial wellbeing.
That may well have been the political aim of the exercis...
DATE: Feb 22, 2020
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Last week’s series on the Cayman Islands’ growth story sparked considerable debate among readers about how Bermuda can reinvigorate its own economy and raised some fundamental questions.
Cayman and Bermuda have many similarities, as fellow British Ov...
DATE: Feb 17, 2020
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