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Boris Johnson stunned his nation this week when he announced that he was going to ask Queen Elizabeth II to prorogue Parliament.
The first question that popped up for many was: what does “prorogue” mean? That was followed closely by: why didn’t the ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2019
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Apparently, President Donald Trump will lie about anything. He lies that his wife has got to know North Korea President Kim Jong Un. They have never met. He lies that Russia was excluded from the Group of Eight (now Group of Seven) because Vladimir P...
DATE: Aug 30, 2019
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On Labour Day 2018, while pushing a friend, Alvin Williams, in a wheelchair into a KEMH elevator, an acquaintance called out to me, that he thought that I would be at Union Square, at that time. His comment sparked the thought, that assisting someone...
DATE: Aug 29, 2019
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Glenn Fubler
To my fellow Bermudians, I am a proud Christian woman and I am looking forward to attending Bermuda’s first Pride parade on August 31, 2019!
But how can this be?
Some may get the erroneous idea that Christians in Bermuda dislike gay people and belie...
DATE: Aug 28, 2019
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Black history is American history,” thundered Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, at a ceremony on August 24 commemorating the arrival of “20 and odd Negroes” who were traded for food by pirates who landed at Point Comfort, Virginia, 400 years ago t...
DATE: Aug 27, 2019
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In announcing plans for a major re-examination of human rights in foreign policy, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote in the Wall Street Journal that too many people have pursued an expansionist definition, accepting “new categories of rights,” “ad ...
DATE: Aug 26, 2019
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One of the US Government’s most intriguing health programmes is going to start bearing fruit soon. And the more people who join, the better.
The National Institutes of Health’s “All of Us” project, launched last year, aims to collect genetic informat...
DATE: Aug 26, 2019
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I’m a lot more inclined to give Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats the benefit of the doubt than some, but it seems to me that the impeachment trains are running on three almost entirely unrelated tracks right now, and I’m not sure exactly how this pla...
DATE: Aug 26, 2019
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In July 2017, just days after the 50th anniversary of an uprising against police harassment by the city’s aggrieved African-American community, Detroit entered into a contract with Data Works Plus to dramatically increase its police department’s acce...
DATE: Aug 22, 2019
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On March 1, 2019, finance minister Curtis Dickinson provided the House of Assembly with a statement “Update on the Work of the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission”. I was naturally interested in this update, as gaming is an amenity that can benefit our ...
DATE: Aug 22, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Michael Dunkley
