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We seek and deserve an overdue apology from Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education and Workforce Development. This is not because the Bow-tied One has gone out of his way to create a war footing with The Royal Gazette. It is because there is the li...
DATE: Apr 27, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
We have long been hearing that Bermuda needs to diversify its economy. The reasons are straightforward enough. Bob Richards, the former finance minister put it well in an interview with The Royal Gazette in 2010.
“Take a B52, a bomber that’s designed...
DATE: Apr 18, 2018
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Ira Philip was a newsman who eventually became part of the larger Bermudian story he covered for so many years.
During a career that spanned almost seven decades, his journalistic beats encompassed everything from politics to sport, from cultural hi...
DATE: Apr 10, 2018
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It is mightily disappointing that PHC’s record-breaking tenth football league championship has been forced to share time in the news cycle with the shenanigans that followed the club’s celebration party last Sunday.
They did not deserve that.
But a ...
DATE: Apr 06, 2018
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Flora Duffy arrived on Australia’s Gold Coast as one of the most prohibitive favourites of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She is that good. But as the wonderfully unpredictable and sometimes heartbreaking history of sport has often shown, you can only ...
DATE: Apr 06, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
What if Donald Trump decided one day that every one of his asinine tweets that has been recycled for the benefit of the media and wider public consumption was his personal, intellectual property, and that he wished to be compensated for their reuse w...
DATE: Mar 28, 2018
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Quia timet. Fear of the unknown. A pre-emptive strike.
It can be said with certainty now that freedom of the press — The Royal Gazette, in particular — to look into the goings-on of the fledgeling casino gaming industry in Bermuda is at the heart of ...
DATE: Mar 23, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
Craig Cannonier, a One Bermuda Alliance backbencher and former Premier of Bermuda, made some telling remarks in the House of Assembly on March 2.
Telling because they neatly summed up the prevailing view among this island’s political elite when it co...
DATE: Mar 19, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
This ...
This is why Drive for Change exists.
This is why The Royal Gazette and A Piece of the Rock, and numerous other partners, have joined forces to campaign so hard for the initiative.
This is why friends should not allow friends to drive while u...
DATE: Mar 14, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion
With fame comes power. And Ellen DeGeneres, for whom there are no records to show she has ever visited these isles or ever intends to, has abused that power by attempting to sway the minds and hearts of her 77.1 million Twitter followers into boycott...
DATE: Mar 09, 2018
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RG: In our Opinion