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I have been thinking about my role in our community for a while. I’ve avoided politics because it terrifies me. I’m sure if I ever ran for office, within minutes I’d have both feet in my mouth and be chewing my fingernails at the same time.
I’m not t...
DATE: Jun 17, 2017
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In case you didn’t notice, Britain just held an election and the ruling Conservative Party, which had expected to win by a landslide, got hammered. The experts had given Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, almost no chance to wi...
DATE: Jun 16, 2017
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The introduction of tax reform measures is one of the most important items that should be on the Agenda for any political party vying to win this upcoming election. Tax reform is critical to Bermuda’s economic recovery and clearly the One Bermuda Al...
DATE: Jun 16, 2017
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Cheryl Pooley
With the island under the global spotlight of the 35th America’s Cup, our waters and vistas have never looked so beautiful. It is impossible to ignore that Bermuda is an exceptional setting. Artists have been saying the same for decades, if not centu...
DATE: Jun 15, 2017
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Last week, as the shocking results of the British elections arrived, the most overused sentence in Britain seemed to be: “I was wrong.” Another insurgent mass movement following Syriza in Greece, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in the United States, ...
DATE: Jun 15, 2017
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They say you shouldn’t drive forward while looking in the rear-view mirror. Nor, I suppose, is it any good looking ahead but through darkly tinted glass. Yet we enter an election and would be mindful to consider what has, or has not been presented, a...
DATE: Jun 14, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Bob Inglis is a former Republican representative from South Carolina. He compiled a conservative record in the House, where he was a member of the Judiciary Committee and voted in 1998 to impeach President Bill Clinton.
But Inglis deviated from conse...
DATE: Jun 14, 2017
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The only decent argument in favour of Theresa May’s decision not to step down as British Prime Minister after a disastrous election is that the first round of Brexit talks is scheduled for June 19. The clock has been ticking on the two-year process s...
DATE: Jun 13, 2017
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Along with my condolences and sympathies to the family and friends, the passing of Shawn Crockwell stoked a fire that quietly lurks underneath the many thoughts and impulses that are attached to our social conscience. That sense of justice and pursui...
DATE: Jun 12, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
Theresa May had a plan: steal the policies of Britain’s “far Right” — the UK Independence Party — and then steal their voters, too. Since she took office about a year ago, the formerly moderate British prime minister attacked foreigners, jeered at th...
DATE: Jun 10, 2017
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