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It’s just a fact the Progressive Labour Party has 29 Members of Parliament from which to choose the make-up of its 12-member Cabinet. However, the selection process is not as simple as spinning the wheel of fortune, and every person that comes up is ...
DATE: Apr 27, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
“I wanna say I lived each day, until I die
And know that I meant something in somebody’s life
The hearts I have touched will be the proof that I leave
That I made a difference, and this world will see
I was here
I lived, I loved
I was here”
— Beyoncé...
DATE: Apr 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
So Bermuda is blacklisted with the European Union and the hopes are to get off the list as soon as possible to avoid future losses in business and real damage to the economy. The perception of Bermuda as a tax haven, in spite of everything the Govern...
DATE: Mar 28, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
The recent news has been flooded with commentary on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). This tends to be a more leftist leaning theory that supports big government spending and large deficits that get monetised by a central bank.
Basically, governments cr...
DATE: Mar 18, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
Remember what it was like when you landed your first “real” job?
The light-footed way you glided through the lobby, the thrill you felt when you opened your first box of business cards, the nervousness of recording your voice message? You were going...
DATE: Mar 05, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Robin Trimingham
A 90-year old widow with a developmentally disabled adult child struggles with the everyday cost of living while trying to make sense of the proposed government budget tax and social service increases. This is a hypothetical composite case based on r...
DATE: Feb 16, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Within a few short months, hundreds of our young adults will be standing together wearing caps and gowns for their respective high school graduation ceremonies.
A culmination of between 12 and 13 years from primary school to senior school. The sum to...
DATE: Feb 08, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
In the third of a five-part series of articles in conjunction with the Bermuda’s Demographic Challenge series, Bill Storie looks at Generation X.
Today we will discuss the 35 to 50-year-old age group. Commonly referred to as “Gen-X”. In Bermuda this...
DATE: Jan 30, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bill Storie
As part of the Bermuda’s Demographic Challenge series running all this week in The Royal Gazette, Bill Storie will be writing for a series of five columns to view the issues related to our ageing population through the eyes of different ages.
The fi...
DATE: Jan 29, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bill Storie
Brexit, trade wars between China and the United States, commercial and diplomatic tension between Saudi Arabia and Canada, the dissolution of the North American Free Trade Agreement, aside from the Middle East crisis with migration worldwide and Berm...
DATE: Jan 28, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi