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In my last piece for International Women’s Month, I wrote about the experience of being a mother during Covid. Now I’m going to shift gears to explore the global pay inequality between men and women
According to the “statistics”…
The statistics ...
DATE: Mar 31, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Kempe
Bermuda, when the pandemic swept across the planet and changed all of our lives, it was understood that our government would have to react quickly to new challenges and changing issues. The blueprint on the actions required to keep our country safe a...
DATE: Mar 30, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ben Smith
Passing the Budget is the single most important act carried out by Bermuda’s Parliament in any given year.
Pedants will point out that the Budget itself does not get passed and has no legal standing. There is a speech called a Budget Statement, which...
DATE: Mar 29, 2021
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Editorials
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AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
Apart from the global pandemic that has many governments scrambling to cope with a virus that has brought so many powerful nations to their knees, there are other horrific incidents such as refugee camp fires, massive flooding and military confrontat...
DATE: Mar 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Last Friday night, with little debate, the most ambitious changes to Bermuda’s education system in decades sailed through the House of Assembly.
Perhaps that is the price when the governing party has a massive majority. It may also have something to ...
DATE: Mar 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Editorials
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AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion
After reading Martha Harris Myron’s column, “Celebrating the accounting profession”, I found myself wondering why an equivalent correspondence had not been penned by the Ministry of Education or one of the private schools celebrating the teaching pro...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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Greetings, today’s generations. This is the “spirit” of E.F. Gordon offering some perspective and hoping it may help you engage this challenging period in human history. Of course, I can speak only from my own experiences.
My journey began in Trinida...
DATE: Mar 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Glenn Fubler
“See the hypocrites, dem a galang deh” – B
ob Marley
It is always amusing to hear persons or organisations expose a degree of hypocrisy between what they say versus what they actually do.
After the October 2020 General Election, and with a ch...
DATE: Mar 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
Sunday will mark the 42nd anniversary of the United Nations’ observance of “International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination”. Since 1979, the United Nations General Assembly has promoted global activities and awareness on this day, whi...
DATE: Mar 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Cheryl Peek-Ball
“It’s not what we do, but why we do it.”
This is a paraphrase of the theme of a speech given by noted comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory which I heard as a freshman student at the University off Miami, in the late 1960s. That experience ...
DATE: Mar 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Glenn Fubler
