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On December 2, members of our community converged upon the grounds outside the House of Assembly, in response to a call from the Leader of the Opposition, together with the People’s Campaign, Move Bermuda and the unions — which I will call the “Combi...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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On November 13, Carolyn Young, the wife of labour icon Kenyatta Young, who predeceased her, was laid to rest at St John’s Church in Pembroke. Sister Carolyn may not have been known to some Bermudians, but I can assure you that to most black Bermudian...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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Rolfe Commissiong
Nationalist politicians everywhere think they know exactly what happened on Monday night in Berlin, where a heavy truck ploughed into a Christmas market, killing 12 and injuring 50. The police and prosecutor’s office, by contrast, do not pretend to k...
DATE: Dec 21, 2016
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“In keeping with our promise to create jobs for Bermudians, the Government is working closely with Aecon to prepare tendering packages for contractor and subcontractor bids for work scheduled to begin in the new year. These will be announced shortly,...
DATE: Dec 21, 2016
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Families can be mysterious, intense and, more often than not, indecipherable to the outside world. Most families seem to endure similar gyrations and upheavals. There are moments of failure and success. There is admirable endurance. To study any indi...
DATE: Dec 20, 2016
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On May 27, Barack Obama became the first sitting United States president to visit Hiroshima, the site of history’s first atomic attack on August 6, 1945. The Japanese Government did not ask Obama for an apology, nor did he offer one.
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DATE: Dec 19, 2016
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Thomas L. Knapp
Not wanting to dedicate energy towards a rumour, I have had to rely on the presumption that The Royal Gazette would not publish a front-page story without some substance behind it. Real-time events nowadays are such that they should not need to inven...
DATE: Dec 19, 2016
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Khalid Wasi
Contemplating the extermination of Aleppo and its people, I was reminded of a sentence I read this summer. It appeared in an encomium to Elie Wiesel shortly after his death. It was a sterling sentence. It declared: “We must never be bystanders to inj...
DATE: Dec 19, 2016
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As innocent civilians continue to be slaughtered within the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, our greatest present-day humanitarian catastrophe can be largely attributed to the Muslim world having failed the people of Syria.
Even though many nations an...
DATE: Dec 17, 2016
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Maybe I am a little biased. As Mayor of Hamilton, I like to think of our city as being, besides the political capital, the economic hub of the island — even its social centre as well. Hamilton is the island’s main attraction. The contribution to gove...
DATE: Dec 16, 2016
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