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So, did you vote in the General Election last month? Really? Well you’re not alone, but the voter numbers may surprise you.
More than 20,000 registered Bermudian voters did not vote. Yes, more than 20,000.
That means nearly half of our 46,311 regi...
DATE: Nov 21, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Scott Pearman
The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families welcomes the Government’s 2020 Throne Speech.
From early in the speech and throughout, the Government makes a clear commitment to social priorities.
In 2014, the IAC conducted a comprehensive Asse...
DATE: Nov 16, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nicola Paugh
“We regret to announce the death of the Bermuda Tourism Authority in its seventh year of existence”
You get the idea. The Government has announced that former national security minister and sitting Devonshire MP Wayne Caines will also become t...
DATE: Nov 12, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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Sooner or later, absent some kind of mass-extinction event, humankind will establish itself there: on the Moon. On Mars. Among the asteroids. Someday, even on planets orbiting distant stars.
There isn’t — or at least shouldn’t be — anything controver...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Thomas L. Knapp
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris took centre stage last night as she debated Vice-President Mike Pence. While many celebrate Harris’s nomination as a landmark development in the crumbling of racial and gender barriers in American po...
DATE: Oct 08, 2020
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Other
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David Burt, the Premier, was entitled to some time off after his massive election victory last week.
But soon enough, he needs to get back to work. The first order of business is to appoint a Cabinet, which he has promised by Thursday. Mr Burt is sp...
DATE: Oct 06, 2020
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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
Dear Sir,
I am taking the time to write to the people of my beloved island home — God’s country, the crown jewel of the Atlantic — which I miss and will forever be true to.
I have not travelled back to Bermuda for seven years because I feel that in ...
DATE: Sep 19, 2020
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Letters to the Editor
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AUTHOR:
Letters to the Editor
Spoilers. Kingmakers. Or just another blip on the political radar? Despite the recent intrusion, infusion or insertion by others of the Free Democratic Movement into Bermuda’s political mix, the General Election scheduled for October 1 is still the P...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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Other
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Dear readers, I am looking for volunteers who have a financial success story to tell the world. Our domestic and global community needs to hear and read these stories, now more than ever.
We need to see and feel real hope, that can incentivise us to...
DATE: Sep 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Aristotle the Greek considered ethics a moral philosophy defining right and wrong, good and evil, and responsibility for one’s actions.
Individually, we develop a personal code of ethical values during our lives. Children tend to not absorb such an ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron