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The Premier, David Burt, was quoted as making the following comment in the House of Assembly on July 12: “I don’t think economic reasons are the main reasons that people leave Bermuda. The main [reasons] revolve around education and issues inside our...
DATE: Aug 09, 2019
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I have seen Toni Morrison a handful of times in my life. The most notable was the first time, when I went to hear her read from Paradise while studying abroad in London. It was 1998.
I replayed the speech I’d been practising as we waited in line. All...
DATE: Aug 08, 2019
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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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