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Are you hungry? Is there a sufficient quantity of affordable and nutritious food reliably accessible to you? Everyone enjoys a good meal — but many of us take our food supply for granted.
The events of this past year have made clear the fragility of...
DATE: Apr 07, 2021
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Dear Sir,
Considering the following primary schools will be closed — Port Royal, Heron Bay, West End, Northlands, Gilbert, Elliot, Prospect, St George's Prep and St David's — I feel this is what should happen to the remaining schools:
1, Dalton E. Tu...
DATE: Apr 07, 2021
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Letters to the Editor
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Letters to the Editor
On Sunday evening, it was announced that two people had died of Covid-19 over the weekend, the first deaths since January and the thirteenth and fourteenth since the beginning of the pandemic.
Last night, 69 new cases were announced after 108 new cas...
DATE: Apr 06, 2021
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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
Dear Sir,
In today’s Royal Gazette (March 31, 2021) the chairman of the Bermuda College Board of Governors, Peter Sousa, ran a large advertisement congratulating long-service awardees.
Unfortunately, in large print, he has shown an egregious lack o...
DATE: Apr 06, 2021
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Letters to the Editor
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Letters to the Editor
This year, “I choose to challenge” was the theme of International Women’s Month. In the spirit of this, I have elected to challenge our government to work to improve the protection of women and others who are harassed and abused, and to ban the non-d...
DATE: Apr 05, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Kempe
The year 2020 and the start of 2021 will mark a dramatically different school experience that all of our children will remember for the rest of their lives. Our teachers have had to be creative, adapting to conditions and circumstances that they were...
DATE: Apr 05, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ben Smith
For too many years Bermudians have been fed with the narrative that we need to become more like the Cayman Islands, specifically with regard to work-permit and status issues.
Realistically, it is hard to argue with things like budget surpluses and in...
DATE: Apr 03, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
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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CATEGORY:
Editorials
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AUTHOR:
RG: In our Opinion