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More than 20 million Americans ages 60 to 65 got a rude surprise this year. Many of us, BC — before the novel coronavirus — had counted on a little more time before we had to see ourselves as “old”.
Yet in recent weeks, we’ve been shoved towards sene...
DATE: Jun 30, 2020
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On June 19, 2020, the House of Assembly passed a Bill to amend the Public Health Act. The effect of the amendment is that the Minister of Health now has the power to declare a “Public Health Emergency” if she is satisfied that a communicable disease ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2020
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Over the past month, protests across the country, and even the world, have erupted in response to the death of George Floyd by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. While the protests have focused on police violence, the issues of racism ar...
DATE: Jun 30, 2020
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June is designated as PTSD Awareness Month, which concentrates on the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder among people who suffer mentally, physically and/or emotionally from a past trauma.
It is a modern diagnosis commonly associated with comba...
DATE: Jun 29, 2020
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Bermuda has done an exceptional job navigating this viral crisis from a health perspective. We are actually in excellent shape in terms of controlling the spread and the overall level of infections. But this is not translating into any significant po...
DATE: Jun 29, 2020
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Nathan Kowalski
My ten-year-old, wearing only underwear and a T-shirt, is half-on, half-off the couch, and one bare leg cradles a laptop I bought the year she was born. She’s watching a YouTube video about the executive branch. This is the last week of fifth grade.
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DATE: Jun 26, 2020
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The retail industry in Bermuda was in poor shape before the arrival of Covid-19. The factors contributing to its decline include overseas shopping because of lower prices and greater variety of product, a reduction in Bermuda’s workforce, and an over...
DATE: Jun 26, 2020
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Ben Smith
Donald Trump has announced that tens of thousands of foreign workers will be banned from entering the United States through the end of the year. It will take longer than that to repair the damage.
The new order cancels a range of non-immigrant visas ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2020
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The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families, the Coalition for the Protection of Children, Family Centre, and Saving Children and Revealing Secrets jointly celebrate the Criminal Code Amendment Act 2020 recently tabled in the Senate by the A...
DATE: Jun 26, 2020
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As statues come down everywhere and right-of-centre pundits waggle their fingers and say they told us so, it is important to try to draw distinctions. After all, when you topple George Washington from his pedestal — which many argued would never happ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Stephen L. Carter
