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I started to write about Bermuda and the stunning lack of diversity in our island’s boardrooms.
I started to write about how Bermuda has one of the highest percentages of people of African descent holding college and advanced degrees in the world.
I ...
DATE: Jan 05, 2015
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Dear Sir,
MP Leah Scott recently commented on ZBM News on the loss of old-fashioned values which were once prevalent within the black community. I could empathise with her comments because 30 years ago, in the Eighties — yes, that long ago — when I r...
DATE: Dec 30, 2014
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Letters to the Editor
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Holidays are for happiness. There you are in the aftermath, sitting amid the remnants of wrappings, fading but still twinkling lights, wonderful food, and memories of Christmas. You may have acquired things you don’t need, given things that others di...
DATE: Dec 27, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
On behalf of myself, my family, my staff, my business, and on behalf of all my fellow Bermudians, I want to give thanks to the Minister of Economic Development, Grant Gibbons, and his team for all the initiative they demonstrated and all the hard wor...
DATE: Dec 19, 2014
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Since I have been elected to the Bermuda Cricket Board as a club representative I have been doing nothing but talking to friends in other countries, trying to find ideas on how we can improve our cricket.
It is of no secret that our cricket needs an...
DATE: Dec 19, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
There is one irrefutable truth in education: parental involvement in schools promotes student success and achievement. Most of us grew up believing that we could do anything or become anything we wanted with dedication and hard work.
Whether we will...
DATE: Dec 18, 2014
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Visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads? Sadly not.
We may forget that while we are busy being concerned about our plans for the holidays, many of our students and young folk are in the throes of making important plans and decisions about thei...
DATE: Dec 17, 2014
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
Dear Sir,
On December 5, the first anniversary of the death of Nelson Mandela was commemorated locally and abroad.
I wish to draw attention to the birth of what I will call Mandela’s defining moment of transformation: the launch of the military “Spe...
DATE: Dec 17, 2014
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Letters to the Editor
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Former Bermuda Premier Sir John Swan recently retired from the board of directors of The Standard Club, an international mutual insurance association owned by its shipowner members, after 37 years of service. The club insures shipowners, operators an...
DATE: Dec 16, 2014
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You don’t need cartoonist Peter Woolcock’s highly developed sense of the absurd to recognise the comic possibilities — and improbabilities — of Bermudian politics.
The House of Assembly has, of course, long been the setting for low farce as well as h...
DATE: Dec 12, 2014
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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
