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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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CATEGORY:
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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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
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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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Thomas L. Knapp
Dear readers, I am looking for volunteers who have a financial success story to tell the world. Our domestic and global community needs to hear and read these stories, now more than ever.
We need to see and feel real hope, that can incentivise us to...
DATE: Sep 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Aristotle the Greek considered ethics a moral philosophy defining right and wrong, good and evil, and responsibility for one’s actions.
Individually, we develop a personal code of ethical values during our lives. Children tend to not absorb such an ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
The drive for further political reform continued after 1968 and the adoption of a written constitution by British order. But change came slowly.
There was the unresolved, unfinished business of the electoral system and whether parish-based, dual-seat...
DATE: Aug 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
This week, I had a chat with two of the staff at our store on Harbour Road in Paget because I wanted to get a feel for any changes in wine-buying patterns.
One of them told me that chardonnay has been more in demand, starting about six months ago.
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DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Michael Robinson
This article continues our discussion of post-Covid-19 recovery with thoughts of everything returning to the old normal, a semblance of normal, or the new normal, or something quite different again.
No one really knows how recovery will completely s...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
