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Within a few short months, hundreds of our young adults will be standing together wearing caps and gowns for their respective high school graduation ceremonies.
A culmination of between 12 and 13 years from primary school to senior school. The sum to...
DATE: Feb 08, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
Dear Sir,
I am someone who reads The Royal Gazette daily online, and I smiled as I read the heading “BUT celebrating 100 years of fighting for education” in today’s paper (January 31, 2019).
On my arm at this very moment is a watch gifted to me by Do...
DATE: Feb 07, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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So, where were we? Ah, yes, our “fundamental macroeconomic external imbalance”.
If a nation’s savings exceeds its investment, as ours obviously does, the country has “excess savings”, which it then exports to other countries to fund their investment ...
DATE: Feb 07, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Robert Stubbs
On October 8, 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body dedicated to providing the world with an objective and scientific view of climate change, issued a stark warning to us all. The planet is warming at a greater ra...
DATE: Feb 05, 2019
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When I was invited to speak to the Probus Club last week, I was pleased that I was able to choose the topic for the day. It was very tempting to speak about my love for sport and how it is so important to building strong communities and providing opp...
DATE: Feb 04, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Michael Dunkley
While our politicians spent the new year attempting to mitigate the embarrassment of their longstanding, adamant denials of Bermuda’s indubitable status as a tax haven being now well and truly exposed as a farce, much of the rest of the island were a...
DATE: Jan 31, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Robert Stubbs
In the third of a five-part series of articles in conjunction with the Bermuda’s Demographic Challenge series, Bill Storie looks at Generation X.
Today we will discuss the 35 to 50-year-old age group. Commonly referred to as “Gen-X”. In Bermuda this...
DATE: Jan 30, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bill Storie
As part of the Bermuda’s Demographic Challenge series running all this week in The Royal Gazette, Bill Storie will be writing for a series of five columns to view the issues related to our ageing population through the eyes of different ages.
The fi...
DATE: Jan 29, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bill Storie
Brexit, trade wars between China and the United States, commercial and diplomatic tension between Saudi Arabia and Canada, the dissolution of the North American Free Trade Agreement, aside from the Middle East crisis with migration worldwide and Berm...
DATE: Jan 28, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Last July, an engineer at Accenture was beaten to death by a crowd that thought he was a child kidnapper. They were angry, violent and completely wrong. The rumours about the man were “fake news” spread on WhatsApp, an incredibly popular messaging se...
DATE: Jan 26, 2019
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