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In acknowledgement of Black History Month, The Royal Gazette continues the publication of stories throughout February on African-American and global African people, events and institutions, and their contributions in history
Kingston, the capita...
DATE: Feb 08, 2021
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Black History Month
The delegates conference, a ritual performed each autumn since the Progressive Labour Party's inception back in 1963, is sacred to the function of the organisation, yet seemingly disconnected and inconsequential to the broad party support.
The conf...
DATE: Feb 02, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
The European Parliament, by a 587-50 vote, passed a resolution two weeks ago calling for the automatic inclusion on the blacklist of countries that use a 0 per cent tax regime. They undoubtedly have British territories such as Bermuda and Cayman Isla...
DATE: Feb 01, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Rolfe Commissiong
President Donald Trump made his final effort to overturn the 2020 election yesterday, as his allies challenge the electoral college count in Congress. His earlier efforts failed when the Supreme Court rejected Texas's lawsuit to throw out the results...
DATE: Jan 07, 2021
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Britain's free-trade agreement with the European Union, announced last week after months of fractious talks and days before the transitional Brexit arrangements were due to end, is certainly better than the alternative. Separating with no deal at all...
DATE: Dec 29, 2020
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“What a plot, dem a plot ’gainst I and I”
— Ziggy Marley
On February 20, 2019, the British House of Commons released a report from its Foreign Affairs Committee. This report was entitled Global Britain and the British Overseas Territories: ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
So, did you vote in the General Election last month? Really? Well you’re not alone, but the voter numbers may surprise you.
More than 20,000 registered Bermudian voters did not vote. Yes, more than 20,000.
That means nearly half of our 46,311 regi...
DATE: Nov 21, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Scott Pearman
The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families welcomes the Government’s 2020 Throne Speech.
From early in the speech and throughout, the Government makes a clear commitment to social priorities.
In 2014, the IAC conducted a comprehensive Asse...
DATE: Nov 16, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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Nicola Paugh
“We regret to announce the death of the Bermuda Tourism Authority in its seventh year of existence”
You get the idea. The Government has announced that former national security minister and sitting Devonshire MP Wayne Caines will also become t...
DATE: Nov 12, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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Sooner or later, absent some kind of mass-extinction event, humankind will establish itself there: on the Moon. On Mars. Among the asteroids. Someday, even on planets orbiting distant stars.
There isn’t — or at least shouldn’t be — anything controver...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Thomas L. Knapp
