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Environmental group BEST has expressed serious concern over President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back Obama rules aimed at curbing climate change.
Stuart Hayward, president of the Bermuda Environmental and Sustainability Taskforce, said his feel...
DATE: Apr 03, 2017
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Derek Walcott, recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature, died last week in his native Saint Lucia. Walcott’s muse was Caribbean but his reach was global. His death has triggered an outpouring of tributes, reflections and memories of the man ...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Interesting how that maxim “Be careful what you ask for, you may get it” sure is playing out in the healthcare fiasco in the United States. We can remember the “Repeal Obamacare” chants during the election. Did they know at the time what they actuall...
DATE: Mar 15, 2017
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I read with interest Bryant Trew’s February 24 column, “Good governance: actions speak louder than words”, in which he criticises the Progressive Labour Party for proclaiming that it is the party of transparency yet it repeatedly fails to support tra...
DATE: Mar 09, 2017
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Bermuda charity African Diaspora Heritage Trail will host its sixth annual United Nations International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Commemoration this month, with accomplished Barbadian professor Al...
DATE: Mar 09, 2017
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A thanksgiving service will be held for Lord David Waddington in Britain on Thursday.
Lord Waddington, Governor of Bermuda from 1992 to 1997 and a key political figure in the UK, died on February 23, aged 87. According to an obituary announcement in ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2017
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It was the morning after the Copeland by-election, one of two crucial votes last week that were poised to indicate whether the post-Brexit political landscape really will be as kind to the Conservatives and disastrous for the Labour Party as the poll...
DATE: Mar 01, 2017
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February is Black History Month. Throughout this month The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history
James McCune Smith (1813-1865) was a prominent physician and abolit...
DATE: Feb 28, 2017
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Lord Waddington’s stewardship of Bermuda did not get off to a particularly auspicious start.
Eager to familiarise himself with the workings of our governmental system after he was appointed governor in 1992, he stopped off at the Foreign Office to c...
DATE: Feb 28, 2017
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Two research papers written in Bermuda have been accepted by the Association for Behavior Analysis International.
It is the first time research papers from Bermuda have been accepted by ABAI.
Tomorrow’s Voices Bermuda Autism Early Intervention Centre...
DATE: Feb 27, 2017
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Sarah Lagan