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As the saying goes, you can choose your friends, but not your family.
I am grateful to have Neville Tyrrell as a big cousin/big brother.
For the last 12 months I’ve spent most of my weekends in his presence.
Just like the good old days, he has take...
DATE: Dec 03, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
Christmas shopping preparations have started. Pressure is escalating for parents, relatives and friends to produce gifts that will live up to expectations.
Not everyone has a spending nest egg this year given that here are many individuals, and the...
DATE: Dec 03, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
It’s December and yet winter really has yet to take a bite of this part of the world. Not a complaint but an observation.
We are overdue a winter gale with howling winds that lasts for three days and is punctuated by hard downpours just when it look...
DATE: Dec 03, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Much of the world seems to have taken the view that the tragic devastation taking place in a place called Aleppo, in Syria, is some distant horror story that is best handled by that old saying: “Out of sight, out of mind.”
Decades ago, that was not...
DATE: Dec 03, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
“God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer, Holy Spirit Our Comforter, Humankind Our Family”
— AME Church motto
A creed that thousands of Bermudians have grown up listening to, reciting and living for most, if not all, of their lives. As the third largest ...
DATE: Dec 02, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
Last night I went to see Greezin, Bermuda Media’s documentary about the island’s battle with obesity and chronic disease.
It’s an entertaining but terrifying review of our national obsession with sugar, mac ‘n’ cheese, fried chicken, peas ‘n’ rice …...
DATE: Dec 02, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
The building of a new airport for Bermuda is as critical for our future as the decision by General Dwight Eisenhower, who later became President of the United States. After pondering the pros and cons, which included enormous sacrifice of lives, he u...
DATE: Dec 01, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
It is 6am, a warm July morning. I awake and hear the gentle, guttural sounds of the doves who have built their nest on the roof. I listen to the calm and rhythmic dance of the waves.
I reach for my computer, and pull my hand from it like it is a hot ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
For a long time the girls rarely acknowledged each other’s existence.
Maybe it was their eyesight being very poor as newborns. Or it could have been they didn’t piece it together that they were seeing the same person every day.
But slowly they are ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Husayn Symonds
Off with their heads!” This is how we can end up feeling towards everyone and everything when we’re stressed up to our necks in all the end-of-year preparations. Not very festive, I dare say.
And while December is yet to begin, the frenzy is already ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
