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The recent Black Lives Matters Bermuda march, which was the largest and most comprehensive procession ever witnessed on the streets of Bermuda, was a momentous event. Not to capitalise on that achievement would be a missed opportunity.
Although this...
DATE: Jul 07, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
This is a look at the Labour Force Survey report issued in May 2020 issued by the Bermuda Government Department of Statistics.
The report is based on data collected from the November 2018, May 2019 and November 2019 surveys. It presents survey highli...
DATE: Jul 04, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
This week, I had a chat with two of the staff at our store on Harbour Road in Paget because I wanted to get a feel for any changes in wine-buying patterns.
One of them told me that chardonnay has been more in demand, starting about six months ago.
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DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Michael Robinson
Christopher Famous
About one month ago, I received a notification on Facebook that Dexter Smith had tagged me in a post.
My first instinct was that somehow he was going through delayed withdrawal symptoms and was yearning to talk about the “greatest ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
Nothing says summer like warm sunny days and, oh wait, a lot of tank rain! The kids are finally off their laptops but Mother Nature is not co-operating with all the plans I had for outdoor summer days just yet. Ah well, we’ve gone headlong into summe...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
I believe that, regardless of the circumstances, we ourselves choose the roads we follow. We do it every day with our thoughts, desires and actions.
Exactly three years ago I did my first “live” broadcast on Facebook. I was finishing radiation treatm...
DATE: Jul 02, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
Remember how we were mandated into shelter-in-place, into lockdown and curfew?
Remember how gyms closed and we wanted to write off 2020?
Remember how you found a new norm, worked out at home, joined Zoom classes and promised to remain active?
Rememb...
DATE: Jul 01, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dre Hinds
One hundred years from now, how would historians have characterised this period we now call today. In the perspective of black history, how or in what context would this current period be labelled amid the 400 year travail, and assuming one hundred y...
DATE: Jul 01, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
“When you set out in the world to help yourself you inevitably end up helping … Tutti.”
Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat Pray Love)
Today’s quote is borrowed from one of my favourite books. I won’t pretend that it is the greatest literary masterpiece ever writ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Robin Trimingham
This year’s bipolar market swings have been exceeded only by the wild price action during the Great Financial Crisis in 2008 and the beginning of Great Depression in 1929. Stock markets around the globe tumbled dramatically in late February and March...
DATE: Jun 29, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
