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The suicide of Princeton economist Alan Krueger last weekend is a reminder that self-harm remains an American health crisis and that professional success in no way insulates people from the danger. Krueger, after all, had served as chairman of the Co...
DATE: Mar 22, 2019
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Canadian-born Donald McPhee Lee was the first Editor of The Royal Gazette, serving in the post for 55 years.
Lee had an amazingly long tenure as editor, but a harrowing voyage on the high seas on his way to Bermuda nearly ended his career before it b...
DATE: Mar 21, 2019
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J.K. Rowling never had to fight for her freedom to marry and it shows.
Seemingly unsatisfied with the shock value of making the characters in her Harry Potter franchise racially ambiguous, she has decided to double-down on her 2007 declaration that H...
DATE: Mar 19, 2019
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According to CNN Business, “Facebook, YouTube and Twitter struggle to deal with New Zealand shooting video”.
“Deal with” is code for “censor on demand by governments and activist organisations who oppose public access to information that hasn’t first...
DATE: Mar 19, 2019
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Thomas L. Knapp
Bermuda has never before, in our entire history, faced such a combination of external threats to our economy, standard of living and ability to govern ourselves than we face today. And the irony is that Bermudians appear to be only marginally aware o...
DATE: Mar 18, 2019
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Bob Richards
Pioneering community leader Alice Scott left an indelible mark in Sandys Parish. She was a registered nurse who founded a nursing home and a tennis club, a suffragette and one of the first women in Bermuda to run for a seat in Parliament.
She became ...
DATE: Mar 18, 2019
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“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten ...”
— Joel 2:25
This is the year of restoration,” did proclaim the Right Reverend Gregory Ingram as the emphasis of this year’s just concluded Bermuda Annual Conference of the First Ep...
DATE: Mar 16, 2019
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Patrick Bean
I’m standing with my Nokia mobile phone and a voice recorder. The curtains are open. I look increasingly peculiar to the Cornish couple standing outside, smoking. Mike Newell calls me at noon. “How long do you have?” I ask. “Let’s begin,” he replies,...
DATE: Mar 15, 2019
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Bermuda is on the European Union’s blacklist. Our excuses are chilling, to say the least, and at each and every turn Bermuda has responded either in denial or by taking tepid responsibility for the blunders.
When the EU called an emergency parliament...
DATE: Mar 15, 2019
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It has been very clear, from the statement made in the Throne Speech last year, that the intentions of this government regarding the municipalities are evident.
It is so simple. Taking away the right to determine the representatives on the city coun...
DATE: Mar 14, 2019
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