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Recent child-grooming legislative changes were a huge success for child safeguarding in Bermuda. To read two weeks later, a front-page article, calling for reduced sentencing for someone who sexually abused a 13-year-old child is hard to reconcile.
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DATE: Jul 14, 2020
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Global protests in support of Black Lives Matter have systematically exposed the legacies of slavery and colonialism today.
This has put many on the defensive. White people are quick to tout stories of abolition, emphasising the path bravely forged b...
DATE: Jul 13, 2020
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In the short, out-of-focus video, Davon McNeal stands in front of a whiteboard fastened to a blue wall and speaks about courage.
“Frederick Douglass said,” the sixth-grader tells his classmates, “once said, ‘If there is no struggle, there is no progr...
DATE: Jul 13, 2020
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Theresa Vargas
The Covid-19 pandemic has, and will, cause significant changes to our way of life. We have already had to adapt to unfamiliar phrases such as “shelter in place” and “the new normal”, which will become clear only as time passes.
Many of us have been w...
DATE: Jul 11, 2020
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Ben Smith
Antonio’s, my kids’ favourite pizza-by-the-slice joint, will be fine. The rest of downtown Amherst, Massachusetts, where I live — I’m not so sure.
Antonio’s is — or was, before March — perpetually swarming with high school and college students, local...
DATE: Jul 10, 2020
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A recent post on the Facebook page, Maj’s List, stirred up some healthy conversation and launched me into some thoughts I’ve had particularly in the past decade surrounding entry-level employment opportunities, or lack thereof, in Bermuda.
Here’s th...
DATE: Jul 09, 2020
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Anticipation fuels sports. You are constantly expecting something to stir your emotions: a superb match-up, a play-off run, the chase of a record, the dawn of a new season, the debut of a potential superstar.
Depending on the teams you root for, wha...
DATE: Jul 09, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jerry Brewer
The Monday arrest of Chinese law professor Xu Zhangrun vividly demonstrated the intolerant and autocratic rule of President Xi Jinping that Xu so persuasively denounced in essays in recent years.
One of China’s most inspired voices for freedom has b...
DATE: Jul 08, 2020
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The Washington Post
After spending weeks staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic, people reacted to the killing of George Floyd by spilling into the streets. As they have called attention to police violence, their desires and concerns have found a vehicle in num...
DATE: Jul 08, 2020
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It should be no surprise that Donald Trump has chosen to centre his re-election campaign on appeals to racism and the demonisation of his opponents.
After all, that is what he did from the opening of his 2016 run with his invocation of Mexican immig...
DATE: Jul 08, 2020
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