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In any society with diverse views, there will often be differing perspectives and views of the “others”. Here in Bermuda, we have a country of at least two different cultures and varying socioeconomic circles.
Over the next few months, I will be taki...
DATE: Apr 29, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
It’s week ten of Beat the Couch and we’re rapidly approaching race day on Sunday. It’s an exciting few days, with shirts arriving, medals landing and the couch-on-wheels making its way out of storage. We’ve dusted off the cobwebs and loosened up the ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
I know, Mr Editor, I said that I was going to stop writing for a time. But I trust you will allow me this exception, a tribute for an exceptional person: the late Dr the Honourable Clarence James, CBE, JP.
We were not contemporaries, but our paths of...
DATE: Apr 29, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
Even though my wife and I plan to make every effort to avoid creating competition between our babies, we’ve probably already started. Which one is moving more? Which is making mommy uncomfortable? Which is kicking mommy’s ribs and bladder?
But what ...
DATE: Apr 28, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Husayn Symonds
Elbows off the table. Mouth closed when you’re chewing, please. Your fork is not a shovel. What’s the magic word? Elbows OFF the table!’
The soundtrack to many mealtimes with my eight-year-old: an endless, nagging stream of dos and don’ts. I am simpl...
DATE: Apr 27, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
Bermuda is trying to navigate its way through an ocean of changing perceptions over core values that most societies rely on for continuity.
This is being done with a view to trying to build solid citizens who, in whatever they do, never lose sight o...
DATE: Apr 27, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Most people are used to going to the physician with a problem, and having that problem largely cured with treatment.
However there are some illnesses, such as end-stage heart, or liver disease or cancer, that can be slowed down but not cured.
Many a...
DATE: Apr 26, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Joe Yammine, MD
Dear Dr Nekia,
I have a woman that never initiates sex. I ask her to, and I tell her that it means a lot to a man to feel wanted, but although she says that she will, never does. She really doesn’t see the problem because she says that she doesn’t re...
DATE: Apr 25, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nekia Walker
Around the world in democratic jurisdictions, political campaigns by various groups to retain or gain power can be clouded by hidden agendas, with so many twists and turns, that the average citizen begins to wonder if transparency and truth is no lon...
DATE: Apr 25, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
May starts next week and despite the somewhat blustery weather the offshore scene has moved into spring and summer mode. It is time to go fishing, weather permitting.
Although the calendar says springtime, the fish that have shown up on the Banks and...
DATE: Apr 23, 2016
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines