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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
The officers and members of the Progressive Labour Party are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of Bermuda’s most prolific warriors in the fight for civil rights and racial equality, the indomitable Eva Naomi Hodgson, PhD, OBE.
Dr Hodgson ...
DATE: Jun 01, 2020
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This is part two of an article on suggestions to raise revenue during Bermuda’s covid recovery.
Our government has utilised significant, precious financial resources to assist thousands of local residents: the unemployed, and those temporarily or mad...
DATE: May 23, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
How will the Bermuda economy get back on its feet after a recession unlike any other the island has ever seen? Today, The Royal Gazette is inviting readers to offer their ideas.
More than 9,000 people have been laid off in the space of two months, ...
DATE: May 21, 2020
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