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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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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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A human and natural tragedy of catastrophic proportions. Are there lessons for Bermuda?
According to recent Dorian hurricane media reports, the Bahamas islands most heavily affected areas are lowlands, rising 15 to 20 feet above sea level in some res...
DATE: Sep 14, 2019
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Martha Harris Myron
The Reverend T. Wendell Foster passed peacefully at his home in New York last week after decades of service in the United States and Bermuda. It happens that I had the fortune of catching up with this mentor and his extended family during his visit t...
DATE: Sep 11, 2019
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Glenn Fubler
In church halls up and down the country yesterday, prayers were said for our brothers and sisters in the Bahamas.
Hurricane Dorian, the joint strongest Atlantic storm ever to hit land with sustained winds of 185mph, has left in its wake a trail of de...
DATE: Sep 09, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion
