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It would be remiss of me to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, known also as the bombing of “Black Wall Street”, and not mention those equivalent attitudes and actions happening in Bermuda.
No, there were no aircraft flyin...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
There’s a non-trivial element of entertainment involved in the act — or art — of teaching. If you think back to your favourite teachers over the years, whether from school or university, I would wager that they found a way to convey their own interes...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Katie Davis
World history is packed with horrible incidents involving the slaughter of people because they dared to question the powerful over a system of blatant injustice or the breaching of basic human rights that all people are entitled to.
Most countries on...
DATE: Jun 05, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Former One Bermuda Alliance senator Vic Ball is at it again. This time, he penned an opinion saying that we live in a “dictatorship”.
Really?
Just because you don’t win, Mr Ball, doesn’t mean that we live in a dictatorship.
Fair-minded people can ha...
DATE: Jun 04, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Owen Darrell
People do tend to go off on political parties from time to time. They have their fierce critics, and not always from the same quarters. Former Speaker Sir John Cox, from back in the days of independents, was dead set against, and latterly social and ...
DATE: Jun 04, 2021
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
A few weeks ago, an announcement was made by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention stating that those who are fully vaccinated would no longer have to wear a mask inside of a store or restaurant.
Essentially, there would be an honour system ...
DATE: Jun 04, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
Many readers of this report will remember Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Jack Anderson and many others of the great TV anchors, news reporters and investigative columnists who delivered news the public trusted. Those were the days of ...
DATE: Jun 03, 2021
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What can we learn from the politics on display in the United States at present, particularly with the likes of Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, flip-flopping over an inquiry for seeming political reasons?
OK, before anyone says I am a De...
DATE: Jun 02, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”
—Turkish Proverb
It is very rare that I would write a follow-up t...
DATE: Jun 01, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Vic Ball
Naomi Osaka, winner of four grand-slam tennis tournaments, has declared her independence and in doing so is exhibiting interdependence – a refined empathy for others.
Osaka took a stand to preserve healthy boundaries when she declared that for the 2...
DATE: Jun 01, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Glenn Fubler
