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A great deal has changed in recent decades, in educating our young people to meet various challenges along the path of life. Most would agree that there have been major strides in technology and teaching techniques, designed to better equip students ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Recently, the Caribbean island of Grand Cayman served as the host for the 43rd Annual Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s Caribbean, Americas and Atlantic region conference. The conference ran from June 16 to 23.
Nearly 100 delegates from almost...
DATE: Jun 29, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
While the One Bermuda Alliance welcomes initiatives to stop deaths and injury on our roads, it is imperative that the Government makes sure that necessary funding is released to ensure its new road safety campaign is effective.
The Minister of Transp...
DATE: Jun 28, 2018
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Other
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The South Carolina city of Charleston’s two-page apology for enslaving black people and terrorising and treating them as second-class citizens during Jim Crow, ought to be crumpled up and tossed into the trash.
Supporters have cheered the city counci...
DATE: Jun 26, 2018
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Other
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John Rankin has had a pretty rough time of it from the moment he was sworn in as Governor of Bermuda — a mere ten days after civil unrest, literally on the streets of Parliament.
Starting from the fallout of December 2, 2016, a date that will be infa...
DATE: Jun 26, 2018
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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
Dear Sir,
I am submitting this letter to coincide with the resolution of the Nicholl Scholarships for 2018. He was a great philanthropist for whom altruism was the motivating factor.
In October 2017, Khalid Wasi wrote in The Royal Gazette that “Nicho...
DATE: Jun 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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Rule No 1 of successful litigation: find yourself a sympathetic plaintiff. The anti-affirmative action activists behind the present lawsuit charging Harvard University with racial discrimination in undergraduate admissions have certainly checked that...
DATE: Jun 21, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Dear Sir,
Once again, I write your column with warmth and joy in my heart for my love for my island of Bermuda and for my fellow residents.
Like many Bermudians, and our fellow residents, I was on Front Street to view our own wonder girl, Flora Duffy...
DATE: Jun 20, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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I wanted to write a follow-up to my previous opinion, titled “The campaign for equality”, which was published on May 7 of this year.
A comment was made that I felt needed answering in greater detail. The comment was this:
“Why is the United Nations a...
DATE: Jun 13, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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On Friday, the Minister of Health announced that the Customs Tariff Amendment (No 2) Bill 2018, more commonly referred to as the Sugar Tax Bill, would be amended during the debate to take into account “further consideration of the consultation feedba...
DATE: Jun 12, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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