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July is Minority Mental Health Month, established to spotlight the flawed diagnosis of mental illness among minorities. Black men, for example, are nearly six times as likely to be given schizophrenia diagnosis as white men. That problem is compounde...
DATE: Jul 31, 2019
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Surprise! Fire — short for Financial Independence, Retire Early, is not about us anxious-about-retiring oldsters.
Nor is Fire about Fireworks, but a new millennial finance movement, generating a heightened global surge of interest (and dedicated fol...
DATE: Jul 27, 2019
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Martha Harris Myron
Almost every parent I’ve ever met has been united by some common themes: total exhaustion, addiction to caffeine, wide-eyed bewilderment (how can something so small poop so much?).
Yet, even if we’re hanging on to our sanity by a thread, it’s a golde...
DATE: Jul 26, 2019
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Catherine Burns
That July 18 was the 101st birthday of Nelson Mandela made it very appropriate to hold the prize presentation for the quiz of the 60th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott.
This took place at One Communications’ Church Street venue, just across the st...
DATE: Jul 23, 2019
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Glenn Fubler
The Child Safeguarding Bill is a vital leap forward for children’s rights and child protection in Bermuda. First, we at the Coalition for the Protection of Children want to commend the Government for making these historic and necessary changes for ch...
DATE: Jul 23, 2019
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Kelly Hunt
The Premier, David Burt, recently told the House that empirical evidence for the reasons people emigrate from Bermuda did not exist.
Despite that, he blamed the exodus on gangs and education — and I am sure both issues have had an effect. Sadly, ther...
DATE: Jul 20, 2019
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Dwayne Robinson
“Feel the needs of others more than your own” — Emperor Haile Selassie
On Wednesday, July 19, 2017, I lay awake in my bed attempting to contemplate the fullness of the day before. A day that started with heavy rain, followed by a rising sun, which t...
DATE: Jul 19, 2019
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Christopher Famous
Progressive Labour Party leader Leonard Frederick Wade was a teacher turned lawyer, whose true calling was politics. An early member of the PLP, he served the party in many capacities before becoming its leader. He was Opposition leader for 11 years....
DATE: Jul 19, 2019
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No more sweet talk from the hypocrites ... can’t take your slogans no more.” — Bob Marley
During the 2017 election campaign, the Progressive Labour Party’s slogan was: “it’s time to put Bermudians first”. What may not be recalled, is that the One Be...
DATE: Jul 11, 2019
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Vic Ball
This is the last of a four-part series looking into health policy under the Progressive Labour Party
Universal healthcare in many countries has been achieved by a mixed model of funding. General taxation revenue is the primary source of funding, but...
DATE: Jul 09, 2019
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