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A decade ago, I wrote about the death of ephemeral conversation. As computers were becoming ubiquitous, some unintended changes happened, too: before computers, what we said disappeared once we had said it. Neither face-to-face conversations nor tele...
DATE: Mar 09, 2017
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The battle lines have been clearly drawn in the sand. We have had both the annual Budget speech by the Government, and the response from the Opposition. Neither were supposedly meant as election speeches, but in an election year, the probabilities ra...
DATE: Mar 09, 2017
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Today being International Women’s Day, four leading women of the ruling One Bermuda Alliance have collaborated on a message for the fairer sex of Bermuda, under the global campaign theme “be bold for change”
Be bold for change.
Recognise your self...
DATE: Mar 08, 2017
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The sitting president has accused his predecessor of an act that could have gotten the past president impeached. That is not your ordinary exercise of free speech. If the accusation were true, and Barack Obama ordered a warrantless wiretap of Donald ...
DATE: Mar 08, 2017
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Tom Conyers has failed again to grasp the essential points of my view on the Public Service Commission Amendment Regulations 2016, published on page 40 of The Royal Gazette on December 7, 2016.
My comment was that the amendment regulations were beset...
DATE: Mar 07, 2017
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The last week in February was an ugly, humiliating one for South Africa. A country once considered a jewel of democracy on the African continent has been gripped by a wave of xenophobic violence. In a matter of days, more than 30 stores belonging to ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2017
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Donald Trump’s political career was born amid the fever swamps of the far Right. He seized on a favourite conspiracy theory bubbling there — that Barack Obama was not, in fact, born in the United States and, therefore, was an illegitimate president —...
DATE: Mar 07, 2017
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Sports play a critical role in developing and building core values and character within our youth. Often poor parenting is targeted as the primary reason behind some of the island’s gang-related problems; however, infrequently is the lack of “belongi...
DATE: Mar 06, 2017
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After the Wendell Baxter case, what will be our legacy as the adult witnesses of crimes against our children? Will we ignore this taboo subject that is continually being brought to our attention, or will we take a stand and fight for change?
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DATE: Mar 06, 2017
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Maryland’s roll-out of its medical cannabis programme has been called “one of the slowest” of the 28 states that allow it. Approved about three years ago, the programme is still months away from being operational — and that may be optimistic.
The le...
DATE: Mar 06, 2017
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The Washington Post