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I read with great interest the front-page story in The Royal Gazette on January 5 titled “Anger over absence of diversity in honours” and the opinion by Chris Famous titled “No honour in the lack of diversity”.
I followed this debate when it first su...
DATE: Jan 08, 2018
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Michael Dunkley
As we embrace 2018, many will talk about new year’s resolutions. I have already made mine, so I thought I would write some for the Government to consider that would benefit all Bermudians:
Resolution 1: Engage more in governing and less in politickin...
DATE: Jan 03, 2018
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The United States just passed a tax code and it “trumps” the tax impositions that sparked the 18th-century French revolution.
The 2016 wave of populism that created this presidency has handed the greatest gift in American history to the fewer than 1...
DATE: Dec 30, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
Avid news consumers suffered a near-daily whiplash of bombshell stories this year, many of which involved Donald Trump and his star-crossed administration. His surprising election win, and hectic first year in office, so dominated the news cycle that...
DATE: Dec 29, 2017
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On occasion when planning a newspaper, editors face a quandary in making the decision over which of two viable candidates should be the lead story — or “the splash”. Such was the case on Friday in anticipation of the much awaited parliamentary debate...
DATE: Dec 11, 2017
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RG: In our Opinion
So which is it? Is the Government seriously considering the i-word or not? You may recall that the Junior Minister of Home Affairs, Jason Hayward, who also happens to be the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, was the first government off...
DATE: Dec 04, 2017
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Someone within the Bermuda Tourism Authority believes that an internal e-mail circulated by the chief executive that effectively takes The Royal Gazette to task for misleading the public is newsworthy.
The leaker, whose future at the BTA must surely ...
DATE: Nov 29, 2017
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RG: In our Opinion
After years of crisis management, heightened self-doubt and even existential threats, Europe is in a much better place. Economic growth is picking up, political uncertainty has diminished, and despite — if not partially because of — Brexit, the visio...
DATE: Nov 27, 2017
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Perhaps with Robert Mugabe’s resignation, we have come to the beginning of the end of an iconic era of Mugabe and a step closer to ending a series of like dictatorships that emerged during the latter part of the 20th century.
A once-celebrated hero ...
DATE: Nov 25, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
It has finally happened. The dictator Robert Mugabe has fallen. After days of uncertainty in the wake of an ambiguous coup, he finally bowed to pressure from his former allies and ordinary Zimbabweans.
In his resignation letter, Mugabe tried to depic...
DATE: Nov 23, 2017
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