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Ruth Seaton James was the first woman and the first black person to head a government department in Bermuda.
That milestone in the island’s long march towards racial and gender equality occurred on August 22, 1966 with her appointment as Registrar-Ge...
DATE: Sep 24, 2019
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The facts are dribbling out about Donald Trump’s efforts to seek official foreign assistance to take actions that would harm his domestic political rivals. Those facts are rather appalling, but as The New York Times’s David Leonhardt notes, it is rea...
DATE: Sep 24, 2019
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“Hurricane Hell” and “the Bahamas is at war being attacked by Hurricane Dorian. And yet the Bahamas has no weapon to defend itself”, are two memorable expressions that emerged from the wreckage of the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama in the chain of is...
DATE: Sep 23, 2019
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Erika Zak had been writing an op-ed for The Washington Post,/i> about her struggles with the healthcare system when she died on August 23. Her husband, Scott Powers, working with Post editors, completed her draft, a letter to their daughter, by drawi...
DATE: Sep 20, 2019
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Historians recently rated Barack Obama as the twelfth-best president in America’s history. On foreign policy, they lauded his pragmatism, multilateralism and internationalism. These traits all contrast favourably with his predecessor’s preference for...
DATE: Sep 19, 2019
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Former United States vice-president Joe Biden spent Sunday at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, speaking on the anniversary of a bombing there that killed four black girls in the middle of the civil rights movement. The candidate...
DATE: Sep 18, 2019
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“If you do not have a record to run on, then paint your opponent as someone to run from” — Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States
It is so typical of the Progressive Labour Party to try to paint the One Bermuda Alliance in the worst p...
DATE: Sep 17, 2019
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Michael Dunkley
Ever since e-cigarettes began surging in popularity, they have posed a vexing problem: these nicotine-delivery devices may help some adults quit smoking, which is more dangerous than vaping, but also may addict non-smokers to nicotine, especially cur...
DATE: Sep 17, 2019
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The Washington Post
By all indications, when the Dunkley administration decided to gamble with $165 million in taxpayer’s money, they knew that the Morgan’s Point project was on shaky financial footing. That begs the question; why take such a risky, high-stakes gamble w...
DATE: Sep 16, 2019
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Just to be sure I heard it correctly, I replayed former vice-president Joe Biden’s eye-popping gaffe from Thursday night’s debate instructing poor parents to put the record player on to help their children learn.
“#Record player” was trending on Twit...
DATE: Sep 16, 2019
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