21 results returned for search: "" category ("Opinion Writer" AND "Opinion") author Dexter Smith
When a young mind is inspired it is more than hopeful, it is great
— Lisa Baksh
Aspiring boxer Chanz Smith met his hero last week in the culmination of a Black History Month Celebration project assigned by his teachers at Purvis Primary Scho...
DATE: Mar 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Opinion
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
On April 15, Indianapolis police arrived at the FedEx ground facility where a former employee shot and killed eight people, and wounded several others. About 90 per cent of the workers at the FedEx warehouse are members of the local Sikh community, a...
DATE: May 17, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
These are dangerously challenging times, morally challenging even, to be aligning oneself too closely to the hierarchy of Fifa, the disgraced world governing body of football.
The supposed guardians of the most popular sport on Earth are in a right m...
DATE: Jun 05, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
The Bermuda Cricket Board announced two key decisions this week. One was to confirm that the overinflated Belco Cup of 2014 will revert to its more favourable format. And the other was to remove Fiqre Crockwell, or accept his request for withdrawal, ...
DATE: May 01, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
Moral compass.
“A natural feeling that makes people know what is right and wrong and how they should behave”
— Collins English Dictionary
There have been compelling signs in the past 12 to 18 months to suggest that the moral compass in Bermuda spo...
DATE: Apr 17, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
Selfless acts of bravery have shaped the course of history. That much we should know from time spent in any classroom, home school or, for those for whom the formative years of learning were frittered away, flicking through the History Channel.
The l...
DATE: Mar 27, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
The eight years of fame — some might say eight years of shame — are over.
We have the brazen bats of David Warner and Glenn Maxwell, and then 90mph thunderbolts from Mitchell Johnson, to thank for that.
So in an afternoon of ultimately one-sided Worl...
DATE: Mar 06, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
In the wake of the catastrophic tour to Malaysia at the back end of last year, Lloyd Fray, not one known for bold pronouncements during his spell as president of the Bermuda Cricket Board, declared that players should have been sent home.
Such was th...
DATE: Feb 27, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
“Racism”, finally given a name in the 1930s, centuries after the evil first pervaded the belief system, had no idea how emotive a topic it would become — and continue to become.
Back in the days of its genesis, most significantly during the advance o...
DATE: Feb 13, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
It may be akin to shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted, but at long last it appears that something is being done to combat the sort of antisocial behaviour that has ranged from sportsmen appearing in the news for the wrong reasons to fam...
DATE: Nov 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
