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When our son was a young boy, he was fascinated by space. His grandmother took him to all the Star Wars films, my husband hung the Millennium Falcon from his bedroom ceiling and his Christmas toys were usually space-related. R2D2 still appears out o...
DATE: Dec 10, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Cecille Snaith-Simmons
More often than not, it seems as if people around the world have allowed themselves to believe that colonialism was and remains some fairytale read in a book. You know, the stories in which the handsome prince marries the glowing bride and all in the...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
‘Tis the season for stuff! Fun things such as stuffing a turkey, stuffing a stocking, buying stuff, wrapping stuff and giving stuff. Unfortunately most stuff comes wrapped in plastic, which then has to be thrown away.
With so much going on at this ti...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Katie Berry
Children's hospitals in the US are being slammed by the double whammy of the flu and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, even as Covid cases start to climb in some areas. With the winter holidays coming up, we seem to be headed straight toward a dre...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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The report on self-determination is out now, so obviously the Cabinet has reviewed it and deemed it fit for public consumption.
Although Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, claimed the report did not make any recommendations, the report’s con...
DATE: Dec 08, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Bermuda Youth Connect is helping the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to get survey responses from Bermudians aged 18-35 to a Global Survey on Youth Digital Futures.
Bermuda’s current response rate is extremely low, making it important to ...
DATE: Dec 07, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bermuda Youth Connect
One of the indefensible assertions that’s re-emerged in recent days is that social media companies’ efforts to limit sharing of a New York Post story in October 2020 cost Donald Trump that year's presidential election.
This is a longstanding claim, m...
DATE: Dec 06, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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In the latest attempt by the One Bermuda Alliance to rewrite history, their most vocal advocate, Vic Ball, wrote things that are easily disproved.
Mr Ball said: “The PLP has gone all out, smearing the ten-year-old OBA with the worst of the racism of ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
I was barely 9 in the summer of 1951 when my parents took us on a trip to Jamaica. Little did we know that Hurricane Charlie, the deadliest tropical cyclone of the Atlantic hurricane season, would visit the island during our vacation.
On what appeare...
DATE: Dec 03, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Cecille Snaith-Simmons
Your government believes it is essential to not only lay out the facts after the recent press conference held by the Fishermen's Association of Bermuda. We also want to assure the public that, as your government, we remain committed to listening to, ...
DATE: Dec 02, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Lindsay Simmons