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“It can be easy to forget the lessons of history, including the tragedies of war, and ramp up divisive and destructive rhetoric without concern for the consequences.”
— Gudjon Bergmann
I have taken the time to review the Premier’s speech at the Pro...
DATE: Nov 14, 2019
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Vic Ball
Former premier Ewart Brown has said his memoirs, which went on sale this week, have given him the chance to set the record straight.
Dr Brown said yesterday: “I feel that the Bermuda public in particular has been told a plethora of falsehoods about m...
DATE: Nov 07, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Walton Brown’s unswerving commitment to Bermudian independence brought a touch of humour to the sorrow of his loss.
David Burt, the Premier, and former Progressive Labour Party minister and longstanding friend of Mr Brown’s Dale Butler told the congr...
DATE: Oct 19, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Hundreds of mourners packed the Anglican Cathedral to bid farewell yesterday to MP and former government minister Walton Brown.
The standing room-only congregation at the Hamilton church heard that Mr Brown combined a fierce commitment to social just...
DATE: Oct 19, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
Having never been in a relationship herself, the obvious question was how Marilyn Steede was able to write a romance novel.
She started working on When Your Body Gets Weak in 1998, and published it in July.
“The love story comes from nothing in my ...
DATE: Oct 16, 2019
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
“There is no economic or political reason why Bermuda should not be independent today. There is no logical reason why we are not independent. We have not seen it because we have not seen the type of leadership to take us to independence.” — Walton Br...
DATE: Oct 09, 2019
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The facts are dribbling out about Donald Trump’s efforts to seek official foreign assistance to take actions that would harm his domestic political rivals. Those facts are rather appalling, but as The New York Times’s David Leonhardt notes, it is rea...
DATE: Sep 24, 2019
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Black history is American history,” thundered Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, at a ceremony on August 24 commemorating the arrival of “20 and odd Negroes” who were traded for food by pirates who landed at Point Comfort, Virginia, 400 years ago t...
DATE: Aug 27, 2019
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Lloyd Williams moved to Nevis and thought it was a good time to try farming.
He’d never planted anything in his life but there was a lot more open land there than in Bermuda and agriculture was important to his Bahá’í faith.
“I was a city boy,” the ...
DATE: Aug 27, 2019
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
Bermudians were called on to “dare to invent the future” at a packed forum last night on national independence.
The call came from panellist Ryan Perinchief, who brought the audience to its feet at the Bermuda Industrial Union’s EF Gordon Hall.
Mr Pe...
DATE: Aug 23, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell