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“The European Chemicals agency estimates there are more than 144,000 man-made chemicals in existence. The US Department of Health estimates 2,000 new chemicals are being released every year. The UN Environment Programme warns most of these have never...
DATE: Oct 03, 2019
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Revelations about Boris Johnson’s personal life, when they periodically emerge, have tended mainly to serve as tabloid fodder for a few days and then flame out. Two recent allegations, however, could prove much harder for the Prime Minister to simply...
DATE: Oct 02, 2019
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Therese Raphael
Is this protracted trade war and conflict between the United States and China a test of will, money or systems?
The US is a market economy, where the producers are entrepreneurs with their own capital at risk, while China is a command economy, where ...
DATE: Sep 25, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Ruth Seaton James was the first woman and the first black person to head a government department in Bermuda.
That milestone in the island’s long march towards racial and gender equality occurred on August 22, 1966 with her appointment as Registrar-Ge...
DATE: Sep 24, 2019
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Green shoots of encouragement could be found from one end of the island to the other in the wake of Hurricane Humberto. The resolve of Bermuda in genuine times of stress yet again proved unbreakable — not so much a show of arrogance in the face of im...
DATE: Sep 23, 2019
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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
Former United States vice-president Joe Biden spent Sunday at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, speaking on the anniversary of a bombing there that killed four black girls in the middle of the civil rights movement. The candidate...
DATE: Sep 18, 2019
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Recent news of redundancies at Butterfield Bank and at Bermuda Security Group, and the recent announcements of retail store closures, must raise grave concerns about the state of the economy.
This may seem alarmist, given the most recent government ...
DATE: Sep 18, 2019
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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
Dear Sir,
Today’s Royal Gazette (Tuesday, September 10) reminded me once again that Bermuda is very often an environment that is hypocritical, contradictory and full of people who follow the dictum “I’m all right, Jack”.
The paper notes that Butterfi...
DATE: Sep 17, 2019
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Letters to the Editor
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Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir,
As a Bermudian health service provider, I want to share some of my concerns in regards to the single-payer insurance plan that the Ministry of Health is proposing.
From what I understand, the Government would like everyone to be covered by...
DATE: Sep 16, 2019
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Letters to the Editor
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Letters to the Editor
Just to be sure I heard it correctly, I replayed former vice-president Joe Biden’s eye-popping gaffe from Thursday night’s debate instructing poor parents to put the record player on to help their children learn.
“#Record player” was trending on Twit...
DATE: Sep 16, 2019
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