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Regarded as the most powerful country in the world, America will soon attempt to move a step closer to the land where, internationally, it is seen as the place where regardless of race, religion or political persuasion, one can under a system of de...
DATE: Jan 13, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Our planet and society seems to be at yet another tipping point. Earlier this year, fires
burned on the West Coast of the United States and scorched more than four million acres of land. To compare this catastrophe, it was equivalent to 303 Bermudas...
DATE: Jan 13, 2021
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The world continues to learn the truth about the principle of not just being a democracy, but the effort it takes to maintain one. Woven into that idea is the notion of a republic where the people are the authority — the fine line between order and d...
DATE: Jan 12, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
The pandemic will eventually end, leaving us more free to ponder what to keep from all the changes it has wrought. One obvious candidate is open-access scientific journals.
Most relevant scientific advances on the Covid-19 front have been put online ...
DATE: Jan 12, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tyler Cowen
“The Bermuda model is broken”
— economist Robert Stubbs
“But if we called it income tax instead of payroll tax we could deduct that from our US income tax. And Bermuda would have an income tax and get everybody off our back. Just a litt...
DATE: Jan 11, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Rolfe Commissiong
One of the Intensive Care Unit nurses approached me again as I was coming out of a patient room and asked when the vaccine for Covid-19 will become available in Bermuda. As before, we both keenly agreed that we would gratefully receive it when it fin...
DATE: Jan 09, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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Have you ever noticed how you can find a cliché for almost every occasion?
Two came to mind during 2020’s last session of the House of Assembly, when MPs gathered, virtually, to pass laws affecting all of us.
One cliché was “something’s better than n...
DATE: Jan 09, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Scott Pearman
It is with sadness and a heavy heart that I present this submission regarding the proposed closure of West End Primary School.
I am disappointed that the Ministry of Education believes it can provide the best of education for our children without tru...
DATE: Jan 08, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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One of the most important jobs of being an MP is to continuously stay in touch with your constituents.
At any given time of the day or night, those who voted for you — and even those who did not vote for you — will reach out to you.
Sometimes, more o...
DATE: Jan 08, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
A 43-year-old child sex offender, who used a child for his own sexual gratification, was released on Christmas Eve after serving only 18 months of a five-year sentence handed down in November 2019.
The community has a right to know some important det...
DATE: Jan 07, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Debi Ray-Rivers
