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Shops and spas are open again and we’re meeting friends and family and making teeny tiny plans in our minds about what we might do to finish off this summer.
However, while I am relieved that things are picking up, I still feel a slight sense of grie...
DATE: Jul 22, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Betty Doyling
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” — Unknown
If there is one thing that my journey has shown me time and again, it’s that if you are not advancing, you are receding because nothing in life is static.
As some...
DATE: Jul 21, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Robin Trimingham
Like a slow-burning forest fire taking a heavy toll on wildlife through heat and smoke, societies today are wrestling with a range of issues that affect life, especially for the family unit.
It should be the family where decency and respect are taugh...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Following up on our article of last week, relative to the Bermuda Government Contributory Pension Fund, we share additional feedback from readers and others.
A reader asked: “If I don’t qualify for Government social insurance, I understand that my co...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Now I know how Rip Van Winkle felt when he woke up.
Just on the verge of a promising looking fishing season and, BANG, out of a fairly clear blue sky comes the pandemic that has kicked more things into touch than any of us could have imagined.
Here...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Last weekend, the standard barbecue got a little shake-up when someone threw pineapple onto the grill.
Be still my nutrition-loving heart, it was totally delicious and shot me straight back to being 18 in Uganda when we used to do the same over the ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Many years ago — in fact, to be precise, it was 45 years and just shy of one month — I learnt that the idea of “judgment day”, as opposed to being a cataclysmic event, was actually always happening simultaneous to what we perceived as now.
That livi...
DATE: Jul 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
When I think of Portugal my mind goes straight to port, but in this summer weather some of their table wines are very pleasant, inexpensive and easy to enjoy.
For instance Casal de Ventozela is a family business created in 1983 and dedicated to prod...
DATE: Jul 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Michael Robinson
It has been election time in some of our sister islands over the past few months. On June 29, there was a General Election held in our fellow British Overseas Territory of Anguilla.
Anguilla has a total population of approximately 15,100 persons, wit...
DATE: Jul 17, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
I am sure that each of you has met someone who unselfishly helped you for no other reason than the kindness in their soul.
I have received so much help from strangers, especially when I first moved from Russia to the United States. I remember every s...
DATE: Jul 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nina London