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Government spending has exceeded tax revenue in every year this century. A series of deficits¹ ensued, culminating in a debt of $2.7 billion. This state of affairs led the Government in 2015 to create the Fiscal Responsibility Panel, an advisory grou...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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The historical seasons have changed, and once again, America’s trees are bearing a strange and bitter fruit — dead black bodies. In less than one month, six black people have been found hanging from trees, in California, Georgia, New York, Oregon and...
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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Whoever put the noose in Bubba Wallace’s garage gave Nascar and all the rest of us permission to quit our romance with the rebel South, to finally leave that doomed relationship, with its phoney harlot beauty.
The stock car drivers who marched on th...
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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An opinion-editorial was written by an incarcerated, young black male last week, providing his experience and calling out embedded systemic racism in the judicial system.
His opinion speaks specifically to the unfairness of the jury-selection process...
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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There have been numerous articles on the scope of the economic challenges Bermuda will be facing over the next few years. As we move forward in the next phases of cautious reopening, there are obvious sectors that will require more support — in parti...
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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Saturday’s Royal Gazette contained a feast of articles each articulating an economic fallacy about present-day Bermuda.
They were entitled:
• “Workers to be allowed to suspend pension payments”
• “Burt: tourists to pay for their Covid-19 tests”
• “D...
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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I have fielded lots of questions about face masks and their suitability for containment of the novel coronavirus. Unfortunately, we started off on the wrong foot with masks and we are now paying the price. Let me explain.
The issue of non-healthcare ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2020
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There was a comforting reassurance to “We’re in this together” that we heard repeatedly at the onset of the plague. But such semblance of unity was quickly revealed to be a hapless aspiration. Infection rates and levels of fatalities vary enormously ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2020
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On March 16, 2020, all elective surgery was stopped at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. We would not get our first confirmed cases of Covid-19 until March 18, but the higher-ups at the hospital knew we needed to prepare for the worst while hoping f...
DATE: Jun 20, 2020
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Liberalising Bermuda’s cannabis laws is overdue. This is undeniable in a society — and a world — awakening to an inflection point in discussions about systemic racialised disparities and inequities within institutions, laws and policies.
Bermuda’s r...
DATE: Jun 19, 2020
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