4076 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion"
Liberalising Bermuda’s cannabis laws is overdue. This is undeniable in a society — and a world — awakening to an inflection point in discussions about systemic racialised disparities and inequities within institutions, laws and policies.
Bermuda’s r...
DATE: Jun 19, 2020
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Book recommendations about race and racism in America have rapidly circulated on social media and news outlets as protests against anti-black violence continue for the third week.
Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk A...
DATE: Jun 19, 2020
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By now, many are aware that the Government has passed legislation amending the National Pension Scheme, granting one-time access to your pension plan up to $12,000. For some, this is much needed relief. For others, this is cause for consideration.
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DATE: Jun 18, 2020
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The following is an edited version of the speech delivered during the motion to adjourn in the virtual House of Assembly on June 5, 2020
The Premier announced last evening that Bermuda should be moving to Phase 3 on June 11. This news will be welcome...
DATE: Jun 12, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Ben Smith
Covid-19 appears to be slowing down in the earlier infected countries. And some economies are very carefully and slowly moving forward, but there are no full blown recoveries yet.
We are reading and hearing about heightened stock market valuations, b...
DATE: Jun 06, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Most Bermudians will have been riveted to the tragedy unfolding in the United States since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
His death has been rightly condemned throughout the US — if smartphones have one virtue, it is that it makes this kin...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
The murder of George Floyd triggered widespread outcry in the United States, internationally and at home in Bermuda. And so it should.
While we sit 700 miles apart across an ocean, the underpinnings of the social and racial injustice that exist in t...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Great tributes have been written about Eva Hodgson in the past few days by Meredith Ebbin, Rolfe Commissiong, Dawn Simmons and Leah Scott. All true and well deserved.
I knew Dr Hodgson through my late husband, John Stubbs. He and Dr Hodgson...
DATE: Jun 04, 2020
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Letters to the Editor
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On a global scale, countries implemented lockdown or “shelter-in-place” policies, consigning millions of people to their homes and shutting down businesses of all kinds. The fear of contracting Covid-19 pervaded the atmosphere, from the fear of being...
DATE: Jun 04, 2020
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Educator, author and activist Eva Hodgson is best known as an antiracism campaigner.
Letters to newspaper editors she has written since the 1960s and publications she has authored have had race relations as their overriding theme.
Her outspokenness ...
DATE: Jun 01, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Meredith Ebbin
