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March was a stark month for Bermuda. It was startling that a number of nursing homes had Covid-19 cases and some were spread by care workers on shift work at more than one home.
Many well-trained and hard-working nurses and nursing aides work at mor...
DATE: Jun 11, 2020
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Patrice Horner
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” — Desmond Tutu
The events unfolding in America regarding the number of police killings in various states, culminating with the televised murder of George Flo...
DATE: Jun 09, 2020
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Vic Ball
The murder of George Floyd triggered widespread outcry in the United States, internationally and at home in Bermuda. And so it should.
While we sit 700 miles apart across an ocean, the underpinnings of the social and racial injustice that exist in t...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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On a global scale, countries implemented lockdown or “shelter-in-place” policies, consigning millions of people to their homes and shutting down businesses of all kinds. The fear of contracting Covid-19 pervaded the atmosphere, from the fear of being...
DATE: Jun 04, 2020
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TLDR; build a second pillar of international business in Bermuda by providing economic refugee status to Hong Kong business owners in finance, insurance, trading and logistics who relocate their headquarters to Bermuda to escape the ongoing constitut...
DATE: Jun 02, 2020
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The iconic video footage of Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin sitting with his knee placed on the neck of the handcuffed George Floyd for eight minutes and 46 seconds has sparked a global response.
The scene is hauntingly surreal: Chauvin sitting ...
DATE: Jun 02, 2020
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Glenn Fubler
What could I or anyone write about Eva Hodgson that would truly do her justice? I never played marbles with her, as we say in Bermuda. After all, she could give me at least three decades. But we had developed a relationship from the Nineties onward t...
DATE: Jun 01, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Rolfe Commissiong
Educator, author and activist Eva Hodgson is best known as an antiracism campaigner.
Letters to newspaper editors she has written since the 1960s and publications she has authored have had race relations as their overriding theme.
Her outspokenness ...
DATE: Jun 01, 2020
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Meredith Ebbin
The officers and members of the Progressive Labour Party are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of Bermuda’s most prolific warriors in the fight for civil rights and racial equality, the indomitable Eva Naomi Hodgson, PhD, OBE.
Dr Hodgson ...
DATE: Jun 01, 2020
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It is often said that a prophet has no honour in his own country. So it can be said of Eva Hodgson.
Although we met and talked on occasion, I did not know Dr Hodgson well. The last time I saw her was in July 2018 at the Bermuda Industrial Union head...
DATE: Jun 01, 2020
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