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I find there’s nothing like travel to test your mettle and flexibility. Trips and holidays can be wonderfully relaxing but the getting there and back can undo all their benefits with a single word: delayed, cancelled, full, lost, sorry … We can get s...
DATE: Jul 27, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
Drowning remains a significant worldwide public health concern. It ranks as the third leading cause of unintentional injury death, accounting for 7 per cent of all injury-related fatalities.
It is a particularly major cause of disability and mortalit...
DATE: Jul 26, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Joe Yammine, MD
After just about every conflict in the labour arena, we hear plenty of talk about finding ways to settle disputes without having to shut down crucial services to make a point. It would appear that not much progress has occurred in handling delicate i...
DATE: Jul 25, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Dear Dr Nekia,
I have always been taught that a man wants a respectable woman who knows how to take care of home, but even though I show men this side of me I am still having a hard time with dating. It seems that men today just do not want to commit...
DATE: Jul 25, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nekia Walker
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something — Wilson Mizner.
Gambling is public, or often, privately conducted. It is confusing to us personally to understand the reasoning and motivation behind gambling itself. We will hold back our cas...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
What a spectacular billfish tournament the Bermuda Big Game Classic was! Well expected to be a good event as it has been for years now, there was really no indication or precedent for this year’s record-shattering performance.
Whether it was closely...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
I’m sitting on a windowsill in New York, 53 floors up, gazing out at the most amazing view.
There’s something magical about the city that never sleeps, and I will never get tired of watching the non-stop traffic and flickering lights.
Fortunately, ...
DATE: Jul 22, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Dear Lord,
Over the past four years, your children of the East have been put under mental and emotional bondage by those people from the West. We have been subjected to a constant stream of insults, ridicule and financial debt. As such, your children...
DATE: Jul 22, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
When a mind so badly poisoned with blind hatred resorts to actions that defy common decency and respect for others, and inflicts pain and suffering without regard for anyone, innocent people fall victim to an evil that leaves most of the world in a s...
DATE: Jul 22, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
I always seem to get far more praise than my wife does when we are taking our babies out in public.
People seem to respond to my very limited and humble skill at not completely upsetting the babies as a rare and virtuous quality.
While I appreciate ...
DATE: Jul 21, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Husayn Symonds