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On the southern outskirts of Paris, a cemetery holds the bodies of the city’s unclaimed dead. Until recently, there lay a hundred whom some consider to be the first victims of global climate change. They were mostly elderly and poor, the forgotten pe...
DATE: Jul 27, 2019
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Last week, the Government rushed legislation titled the Child Safeguarding Bill 2019 through the Senate, despite Opposition protests as to the unnecessary disregarding of due process.
Only senators were invited to a briefing session less than 48 hou...
DATE: Jul 26, 2019
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When will the Premier publicly censure Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch over a series of offensive remarks that undermine the status of a Cabinet minister?
Colonel Burch has dismayed us all with his regular use of misogynistic remarks such as telling m...
DATE: Jul 25, 2019
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Last week, at one of the last major events of his party election campaign, at the conclusion of his 40-year drive to become leader of the British Conservative Party and thus Prime Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson made a speech. Unusually for Johnso...
DATE: Jul 24, 2019
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“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller
The 2019 Cup Match holiday is soon approaching. This holiday is a time to exhale and breathe a sigh of relief because there is a two-day holiday just before the wee...
DATE: Jul 24, 2019
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Vic Ball
That July 18 was the 101st birthday of Nelson Mandela made it very appropriate to hold the prize presentation for the quiz of the 60th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott.
This took place at One Communications’ Church Street venue, just across the st...
DATE: Jul 23, 2019
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Glenn Fubler
The Child Safeguarding Bill is a vital leap forward for children’s rights and child protection in Bermuda. First, we at the Coalition for the Protection of Children want to commend the Government for making these historic and necessary changes for ch...
DATE: Jul 23, 2019
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Kelly Hunt
Do you think of yourself as open-minded? For a 2017 study, scientists asked 2,400 well-educated adults to consider arguments on politically controversial issues — same-sex marriage, gun control, cannabis legalisation — that ran counter to their belie...
DATE: Jul 22, 2019
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The Premier, David Burt, recently told the House that empirical evidence for the reasons people emigrate from Bermuda did not exist.
Despite that, he blamed the exodus on gangs and education — and I am sure both issues have had an effect. Sadly, ther...
DATE: Jul 20, 2019
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Dwayne Robinson
Wednesday night at a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, a sea of white faces in red hats bellowed “Send her back! Send her back!”, referring to Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee who disagreed with the President on policy.
It was a sickening escalation f...
DATE: Jul 20, 2019
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