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Teamwork is equally as important as physical strength. That may just have been the biggest lesson learnt by a group of teenagers who spent three days on Spirit of Bermuda working towards the Silver level of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award...
DATE: Aug 14, 2020
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
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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The East End lost a distinguished senior last month after charity volunteer Ada Foggo died, aged 91.
Kenneth Bascome, a former MP and former Mayor of St George, said his mother had been looked upon with pride by her community as “the hat lady”.
He sa...
DATE: Jul 11, 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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Stephen L. Carter
A former United States Consul-General to Bermuda who played a big role in a financial turning point in the island’s history was remembered this week as a valuable friend.
Sir John Swan, the island’s longest-serving premier, said that Max Friedersdorf...
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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Bermuda’s first woman and first black governor will take over the job later this year, the British Government revealed yesterday.
Rena Lalgie, the director of the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation at the Treasury, will succeed John Ra...
DATE: Jun 13, 2020
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A Bermudian piano teacher who married Ugandan royalty has died.
Ada Nyabongo was just three days short of her 94th birthday when she died on March 26.
Born in Bermuda to Harold and Naomi Paynter, but brought up in Brooklyn, New York, Dr Nyabongo earn...
DATE: Apr 03, 2020
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Frances-Anne Solomon did not know Ulric Cross’s story but.....the request to make a film about him came from her mother.
And so she started on a quest which ultimately led to Hero. It opens the Bermuda International Film Festival on March 20.
“The st...
DATE: Mar 11, 2020
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February 21 was the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X or El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
Two days before his death, in 1965, the photographer Gordon Parks interviewed him. Malcolm’s words follow:
“Listening to various African leaders awakened ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2020
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Glenn Fubler
Mr Premier, I implore you to take your Brexit Committee seriously. In Britain this week, the Prime Minister’s special political adviser, Dominic Cummings, hired a 27-year-old adviser called Andrew Subisky. Within 48 hours, Mr Subisky had quit, owing ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2020
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