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Dear Sir,
I am writing to you as I am concerned about the way my commencement speech to the Berkeley Graduating Class of 2020 was summarised in The Royal Gazette on June 30, 2020. I am giving you a shout as a courtesy, as I will now have to take ste...
DATE: Jul 02, 2020
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Letters to the Editor
One hundred years from now, how would historians have characterised this period we now call today. In the perspective of black history, how or in what context would this current period be labelled amid the 400 year travail, and assuming one hundred y...
DATE: Jul 01, 2020
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Khalid Wasi
“I’m just different.” That is what 23-year-old Elijah McClain told police in Aurora, Colorado, after they stopped him as he walked home from a convenience store last August because someone saw the young black man and reported a suspicious person. Tho...
DATE: Jul 01, 2020
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Over the past month, protests across the country, and even the world, have erupted in response to the death of George Floyd by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. While the protests have focused on police violence, the issues of racism ar...
DATE: Jun 30, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Recently it was announced by the British Government that Bermuda’s first woman and first black governor will take over the job this year. Rena Lalgie, the director of Britain’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation at the Treasury, w...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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Letters to the Editor
Whoever put the noose in Bubba Wallace’s garage gave Nascar and all the rest of us permission to quit our romance with the rebel South, to finally leave that doomed relationship, with its phoney harlot beauty.
The stock car drivers who marched on th...
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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There have been numerous articles on the scope of the economic challenges Bermuda will be facing over the next few years. As we move forward in the next phases of cautious reopening, there are obvious sectors that will require more support — in parti...
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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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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