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The facts are dribbling out about Donald Trump’s efforts to seek official foreign assistance to take actions that would harm his domestic political rivals. Those facts are rather appalling, but as The New York Times’s David Leonhardt notes, it is rea...
DATE: Sep 24, 2019
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Dear Sir,
I read with interest, Bryant Trew’s August 28 letter, raising questions about independence for Bermuda, in light of the latest independence push, now under way.
Mr Trew has a sharp eye and knows how to express himself, with clarity and wei...
DATE: Sep 05, 2019
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Letters to the Editor
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Dear Sir,
Recently, independence advocates have been encouraging people to read the Bermuda Independence Commission report to get answers to questions they may have on the topic. Having taken their advice, I now have questions that weren’t resolved b...
DATE: Aug 28, 2019
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Letters to the Editor
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Black history is American history,” thundered Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, at a ceremony on August 24 commemorating the arrival of “20 and odd Negroes” who were traded for food by pirates who landed at Point Comfort, Virginia, 400 years ago t...
DATE: Aug 27, 2019
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I think of myself as a Democrat, but not strictly because I also believe in the liberty of the individual. As an example, I believe when a person represents others, they should do so with the best that they can personally offer, and not merely as a v...
DATE: Aug 22, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Last week, with encouragement from President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar would not be allowed to visit the country as planned because of their opposition to the I...
DATE: Aug 21, 2019
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In last week’s article I alluded to the fact that a measurable number of Bermuda residents are opting to retire overseas, so it seems only appropriate that I follow this with a few thoughts regarding this subject.
I will say up front that I am not a...
DATE: Aug 20, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Robin Trimingham
This is the second in a new, possibly monthly, series on the millennial trend to becoming financially independent, retire early (FIRE!). We first covered this phenomenon on July 27.
FIRE! is a very real financial movement in its lifestyle changing a...
DATE: Aug 10, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
We would like to endorse and commend the Regulatory Authority of Bermuda for its decision in the recently released first Bermuda integrated resource plan to reject liquefied natural gas as an option and for committing Bermuda’s electricity generation...
DATE: Aug 06, 2019
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Eleven days. That is the time it took from a Puerto Rican news organisation’s publication of nearly 900 pages of devastating documents to a governor’s forced resignation.
In between the two events were the furious protests of hundreds of thousands of...
DATE: Jul 29, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Margaret Sullivan