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For eight brave souls, and the two who will follow when the world’s best Paralympians roll into Rio de Janeiro next month, these are the absolute best of times.
When the Olympic flame is lit tonight to mark the official opening of the Games of the XX...
DATE: Aug 05, 2016
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They were rudimentary props but ones which made his point far more emphatically than any amount of sermonising about the need to eat your vegetables and curb your sugar intake ever could.
When former Philadelphia mayor Mike Nutter first floated the...
DATE: Aug 04, 2016
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Now that the dust has settled on Cup Match and Somerset prepare for a future that does not include a run machine whose surname is amended by deed poll at this time of year to demonstrate his utter dominance of the annual classic, it is time to reflec...
DATE: Aug 02, 2016
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He started out as Hamilton’s somewhat unconventional, unofficial greeter and ended up becoming Bermuda’s goodwill ambassador to the world. The windmilling waves to early-morning commuters, the beaming smiles and the heartfelt cries of “Good morning!”...
DATE: Aug 01, 2016
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Emancipation. Jordan DeSilva. Oronde Bascome. Fiqre Crockwell. Not quite the parallel with Conquest, War, Famine and Death, but one of those should be a recurring theme whenever the Cup Match holiday period rolls around. The other three are talking p...
DATE: Jul 27, 2016
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It has been an exhilarating few weeks for Bermuda’s rising rugby union stars. A squad of talented young men went to Miami for the Rugby Americas North Under-19 Championship, while some of our inspiring young women have been attending a camp at Life U...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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Picture this if you will. A kitchen window pane, spider-webbed with cracks spreading out from where a stray .45 calibre bullet has punched a hole through it early on a summer night.
A table directly in front of the window is empty now, but wet rings...
DATE: Jul 20, 2016
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“Everyone falls in love sometime
Sometimes it’s wrong, and sometimes it’s right
For every win, someone must fail
But there comes a point when
When we exhale ...
If you were a fella at the end of the ultimate chick flick and discovered when the ligh...
DATE: Jul 18, 2016
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Times such as these beg the question as to whether the two-party, Westminster-style political system serves Bermuda well. Could our small community do without organised party politics and instead have a nonpartisan system with all elected Members of ...
DATE: Jul 12, 2016
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If Michael Dunkley did not feel particularly isolated in the House of Assembly by his own refusal to vote on the Human Rights Amendment Act 2016 on Friday, the fallout from the vote has left him on a veritable Gilligan’s Island.
Not only has the Prem...
DATE: Jul 11, 2016
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