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A few weeks into summer and life has slowed down for the better. Traffic is lighter, work is clearer, the evenings are a lot less manic. Bath time, stories and bed are just way easier, so if I could just stop making lunch boxes everything would be pe...
DATE: Jul 20, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
There are some people in Bermuda who have access to the luxury of a private pool. There are some people in Bermuda who have access to the more than 100 private beaches and coves. For people in neither of those categories, Shelly Bay Beach is the one ...
DATE: Jul 20, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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As we sit back and reflect on the past 12 months of Bermuda’s history, we are struck by a variety of thoughts, feelings and visions.
First, let us say thank you to all who participated in the democratic process of registering to vote and subsequently...
DATE: Jul 20, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
Yellow bundles of bananas, tight blue plums, bunches of transparent green grapes, deep red apples, soft and curvy pears, succulent yellow mangoes … I glanced over the rows of neatly laid fruits brought from afar to Bermuda.
“Everything as usual, noth...
DATE: Jul 19, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe as its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them” — Anonymous
The role of the Opposition is to point out the mistakes and blunders of the ruling party and to propose b...
DATE: Jul 19, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Vic Ball
This article is for those that haven’t found the love in exercise. You know who you are. You’ve tried going to the gym. When that failed, you hired a personal trainer hoping the added expense and accountability would motivate you to becoming the gym ...
DATE: Jul 18, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Betty Doyling
I have been driven to a saturation point with some social-media displays. It’s not that I don’t appreciate a person’s sharing, but nowadays one has to be judicious about how much information they want to consume.
Watching the police shoot a mentally...
DATE: Jul 16, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
The lament is familiar, the same every year.
“Healthcare is unaffordable.”
“Healthcare is at an unsustainable level.”
The Bermuda Health Council’s 2017 report states “the Bermuda health system is at a breaking point!”
Further, healthcare premiums ...
DATE: Jul 14, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Is the ocean paved with marlin? That is how it has seemed for the last couple of weeks. Although these productive local waters were unable to come up with something for the Blue Marlin World Cup, the coincidentally fished Bermuda Billfish Blast was a...
DATE: Jul 14, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Christopher Famous
If one was to ask what our national sport is, the answer would vary depending who is replying. Some may say football. Some may say cricket. Others may rightly say gossiping.
Suffice it to say, there is no one answer, as Bermudians ...
DATE: Jul 13, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
