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Budget time is always an interesting part of the calendar for Bermuda because it is a time when the focus of public discourse is the economy, government finances, taxes, debt and our future prospects as a country. Unfortunately, this focus wears off ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bob Richards
My rights! “Son, there is no such thing as ‘your rights’. The only rights that exist are the ones you create and learn to protect.”
We have so many positions we take as truths, but are merely assumptions — and society often contributes to its own ent...
DATE: Feb 24, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Maths are everything. Maths are absolute. Maths are everywhere in our world in virtually every decision we make in our daily lives. Behind the scenes, maths calculations have become so mundane that we have become practically oblivious.
And, maths ph...
DATE: Feb 24, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Last Sunday there was a family gathering at the Willowbank Hotel Conference Centre.
Hundreds from across the island came together to honour the founders of the Progressive Labour Party, those who had laid the foundations for a better and fairer Bermu...
DATE: Feb 23, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
Belle told me I was “on thin ice” this morning. She thinks it’s hilarious to pretend she’s the mom and I’ve done something bad. She also does that thing where she walks past, pauses, looks at me and then indicates she is watching. I’m usually in the ...
DATE: Feb 23, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
I am by profession a lawyer who has had the misfortune in my long career to see the terrible results of fatal accidents from every perspective: inside courts and witnessing punishment, acknowledging the bereavements and grieving families, and all the...
DATE: Feb 23, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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Last week, I wrote an article about how I left my home in Russia and I took with me photos of beloved people and my father’s favourite painting. I was interested in what my Russian-speaking readers would take to a new life abroad if they left their h...
DATE: Feb 22, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
Evangelist Billy Graham tackled the topic of death often and with surprising frankness for a man who made his living telling people the Good News of salvation in Christ. Graham died yesterday, aged 99.
When Graham preached, he said that death was, of...
DATE: Feb 22, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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When I read this year’s Budget in the relationship with the state of the economy and society, I had to fall back on my cricket analogies. The comparison I give would be that my opponent has declared at 350 and my team are on 110 and we just lost the ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
On February 16, 1659 a cheque was used for the first time in Britain by a Nicholas Vanacker, to settle a debt.
With only 20 square miles of land to appreciate, surely we should take advantage of our climate and maintain what we have left of nature’s...
DATE: Feb 21, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Malcolm Griffiths
