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On March 19, I was given the rare and distinct privilege to be invited to sit within the parliamentary chambers of the House of Assembly of the British Virgin Islands during its 2018-19 Budget Statement.
As someone with maternal roots in BVI, it gave...
DATE: Mar 29, 2018
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Angola’s new president, João Lourenço, has said one of his highest priorities is to root out the corruption and favouritism that thrived under his predecessor, José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled for 38 years. Lourenço should look no farther than the ...
DATE: Mar 28, 2018
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There is a fundamental flaw in the Russian propaganda narrative about the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Britain this month: it assumes that Western nations want to gang up on Russia and punish it regardle...
DATE: Mar 28, 2018
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When 45-year-old Sudan died this week in Kenya, the world lost a rhino but not a species. It’s true that Sudan was the last male white northern rhino on Earth — two females remain. But the northern white is a subspecies, not a full species, and it ha...
DATE: Mar 27, 2018
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Shark Week, spanking and sinister threats: Stormy Daniels’s (née Stephanie Clifford’s) long-awaited 60 Minutes interview was by turns amusing and appalling, but was ultimately more smoke than fire when it came to new revelations about her alleged aff...
DATE: Mar 27, 2018
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As the present budget process concludes, it is worth doing a bit of crystal ball-gazing to see what a future Budget Statement by the Minister of Finance might look like if the latest round of lofty promises does not go according to plan.
Mr Speaker, ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2018
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There are some political events that mark our calendars and will be topical enough to take a place in our history books. The recent dismissal of the Bermuda Government v Lahey Clinic case in the United States is one of them.
As a student of revealed...
DATE: Mar 26, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It says all people are free and equal in dignity and rights, and all people have the right to be treated equally by law.
My profound c...
DATE: Mar 24, 2018
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“The pen is mightier than the sword”, a metonymic adage coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839. A concept that communication can be a more effective tool than direct violence.
I stopped using Facebook and social media generally, and re...
DATE: Mar 23, 2018
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Recently, it was suggested by Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, that new rules were needed to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace. Later, Jason Hayward, the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, said that it was his view tha...
DATE: Mar 22, 2018
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