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Well ... school’s out and the children practically made a bonfire out of their uniform in celebration.
We were barely out of the school gates before the shoes came off and the hair came down. I was shown approximately ten thousand bits of artwork wh...
DATE: Jun 28, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Last Friday, the Minister of Education, Diallo Rabain, made a monumental statement in Parliament.
“Mr Speaker, it gives me great pleasure today to rise and give notice of the renewal of the relationship between the Bermudian people and The University...
DATE: Jun 28, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
As we near the end of another school year, I feel it necessary to speak to the state of our education system, the progress that has been made and our plans for the future.
When the Progressive Labour Party government regained power in 2017, and I was...
DATE: Jun 27, 2019
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“Racism is really a mental disorder. Manifestation of racial behaviour as a result of domination is the denial of reality, perceptual distortion, delusion of grandeur, phobias in the face of differences, and projecting blame (blaming the victim). Eur...
DATE: Jun 26, 2019
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Juneteenth — Emancipation Day, 1865 — was supposed to start a new era of black wealth creation. After 12 generations of being subject to slavery’s institutionalised theft, four million African-Americans were now free to earn incomes and degrees, hold...
DATE: Jun 20, 2019
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The following is a first-person account from a young man who tells how he was let down by the Department of Child and Family Services and a foster care system that left him to fend for himself. Given the troubling nature of these revelations, the man...
DATE: Jun 12, 2019
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When a child arrives in our world as a beautiful, precious new life to be celebrated, as much as we derive happiness from our perception that their future life will be a great success, that is not always the case.
Children are the future promise of ...
DATE: Jun 08, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
The internet has enabled the flourishing of countless subcultures, from the harmless to the less so. Lately, one of the latter group has begun to break into the mainstream: the “incels”.
Incel is short for “involuntary celibate” and, as their self-im...
DATE: Jun 08, 2019
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“Our cultural base is the tie that binds. It is the source of our unity and power.” — Wade Nobles, PhD
On May 22, I attended an assembly at Elliot Primary School. Sherrie-Lynn Lilley and her team were the presenters at this assembly. It was very em...
DATE: Jun 07, 2019
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Dear Sir,
Bermuda, I wish to introduce you to my father, Larry Woolgar. Many may know him from his time as a men’s clothing buyer and manager for The English Sports Shop, Aston & Gunn and Gibbons Company. Alternatively, you may know him from the lov...
DATE: Jun 03, 2019
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Letters to the Editor
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