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If the experience of other countries is anything to go by, the greatest threat from the Omicron variant is not that it will cause serious symptoms and widespread death, but that its rapid transmission will paralyse everything from hospitals to shops ...
DATE: Jan 06, 2022
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RG: In our Opinion
2021 ends tomorrow at midnight, and even if there were not a curfew in place, it is likely that farewell celebrations would have been muted. Most people will have had better years than this one.
The trouble is it is also hard to muster up much enthu...
DATE: Dec 31, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Readers of the The Royal Gazette’s print edition may have experienced a sense of déjà vu this morning when they opened their newspapers.
For the first time in several years, the paper contained a number of pages with black and white pictures.
This ...
DATE: Dec 31, 2021
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Children today still like to play with Slime, which first gained popularity in the 1970s when it was marketed primarily as a disgusting looking green substance sold in a pretend plastic trash can.
Its attraction, if that is the word, lay in its slip...
DATE: Dec 29, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Bermuda recorded the 17th road fatality of the year on Christmas Day when 26-year-old Dennis Saunders was killed in a three-vehicle collision.
This equals the highest number of deaths recorded in the past 40 years. If there is another death before t...
DATE: Dec 28, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
"And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”
So says the Gospel of St James in the King James version of the Bible...
DATE: Dec 24, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The death by stabbing of Osagi Bascome, the 23-year-old national football team player has sent shock waves through the community.
Mr Bascome comes from the one of Bermuda’s most distinguished sporting families. His father Herbie was a Cup Match capt...
DATE: Dec 21, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Once again, Bermuda is facing a potential spike in Covid-19 cases. It is critical that, almost two years into the pandemic, the lessons learnt are applied intelligently and fairly.
One of the major lessons is to stick rigorously to the facts and to ...
DATE: Dec 20, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
The old adage no battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy could apply equally well to government budgets, never more so than when the Covid-19 pandemic is added to the mix.
So Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, deserves some sympat...
DATE: Dec 13, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion
Patrick Tannock, the chairman of the Association of Bermuda International Companies, this week issued a call to arms to the Bermuda community.
Mr Tannock, also chief executive officer of Bermuda’s AXA XL insurance operations, warned that the island ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2021
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RG: In our Opinion