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A vicious terrorist attack last month by a transnational jihadist group killed a large number of civilians in a region of strategic importance. That this sentence applies equally to the March 22 Belgium attacks, the March 27 Pakistan attacks or the a...
DATE: Apr 06, 2016
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We all know that polls are only snapshots of a certain point in time. And we also know that politicians usually say that to comfort themselves when a particularly dismal poll result proves to be unflattering at best and a devastating indictment at wo...
DATE: Apr 06, 2016
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Rolfe Commissiong
To begin with, I would like to examine the financing and commercial structure of the proposed airport redevelopment project and why we believe that a public-private partnership, also known as a PPP or P3 model, is an attractive solution for Bermuda. ...
DATE: Apr 06, 2016
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Just as Britain raises its minimum wage and as Bernie Sanders’s demands for a 50 per cent increase in minimum pay keep winning him votes in the United States, some politicians in one of the world’s most socialist countries, Sweden, are in favour of g...
DATE: Apr 05, 2016
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The criticism by Jamahl Simmons of the Bermuda Tourism Authority after the Riddell’s Bay liquidation announcement last week is another example of the Opposition using any excuse to cast doubt about Bermuda today.
It contains a lot of what people dis...
DATE: Apr 05, 2016
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When several black celebrities refused to attend the Academy Awards this year, their protest was initially dismissed as a futile gesture. Yet their boycott succeeded in exposing Hollywood’s subtle but deeply ingrained form of racism.
There’s a lesson...
DATE: Apr 04, 2016
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A United Nations court in The Hague has acquitted Vojislav Seselj, the Serbian nationalist whose volunteers helped to start the war in Croatia in 1991, of all charges. It isn’t the “not guilty” verdict that is shocking or necessarily wrong; it is the...
DATE: Apr 01, 2016
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There has been a lot of propaganda surrounding the beleaguered introduction and subsequent withdrawal of the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Amendment Act 2016.
The mantra, which has revolved around the “Pathways to Status” campaign, has been that...
DATE: Mar 30, 2016
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Bermuda has been highly praised by a student at the Princeton University, which publishes The Daily Princetonian. ANGELA WANG visited the island and submitted this report:I still don’t know the name of the street, but I fell in love with it on my fir...
DATE: Mar 30, 2016
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This weekend, the mainstream media was all in a tizzy because of Nick Kristof’s column arguing “that we in the media screwed up” on Donald Trump.
As someone who has “head-desked” himself repeatedly over Trump’s myriad failings as a possible president...
DATE: Mar 29, 2016
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