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Julian Assange ended his seven-year stay last month at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he had sought refuge from prosecution in Sweden and the United States. The British Government has since ordered that he be extradited to the US, where he m...
DATE: Jul 08, 2019
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Bermuda, my home, is the ocean. Our island, of just 21 square miles, sits in the subtropical mid-Atlantic Ocean, one of the most isolated pieces of land in the world. Like all islanders here, I grew up swimming on our beautiful beaches and fishing of...
DATE: Jul 06, 2019
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Walter Roban
The violent suppression ten years ago on July 5 of a protest march in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in western China, was a pivotal moment in the struggle of the Uighur people to defend their rights. For the Uighurs, th...
DATE: Jul 05, 2019
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The sale of Bermuda’s electrical grid to any buyer can only move forward with approval by Bermuda’s independent Regulatory Authority. For that reason, the recent offer from Algonquin Power & Utilities Corporation to pay $360 million to shareholders o...
DATE: Jul 05, 2019
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The Senate recently ratified the Economic Substance Amendment Act of 2019 after passing unanimously in the House of Assembly.
Within our democracy, it is advantageous that legislation being considered that impacts the economic health of our country ...
DATE: Jul 05, 2019
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Marcus Jones
Justice was served! Our hearts go out to this precious child who was so courageous and spoke her truth in a court environment that could be classified as intimidating, scary and which I feel is inhumane.
I applaud her family and advocates, who not o...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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Debi Ray-Rivers
In the halcyon days of the internet, a vision took hold that in a vast global network, no single point could control. Rather, the internet would flow like water around obstacles. Tim Berners-Lee, a web pioneer, said it was originally intended to be a...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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The Washington Post
“The truths of the Declaration of Independence are not limited by time or place,” John Quincy Adams wrote in 1839. “They belong to the nature of man in every age and every clime. They may be subdued, but they can never be suppressed. They are truths ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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In politics, good gets better and bad gets worse. This axiom perfectly illustrates what we are witnessing in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Since Thursday’s debate, former vice-president Joe Biden has been on his heels as a spec...
DATE: Jul 03, 2019
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In a break with tradition, Donald Trump plans to assume a prominent role in the Independence Day celebration in Washington tomorrow. For months, Trump has promised a “major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favourite president, ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2019
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