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Just six weeks ago, on October 5, Bermuda had a total of two active Covid-19 cases, the lowest number since the pandemic took hold.
As of yesterday, there were 19 active cases, but the number had risen to as high as 27 at one point this month. Fortun...
DATE: Nov 20, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
On the heels of its historic mandate, the Government laid out an ambitious programme in its Throne Speech delivered last Friday in the Town of St George.
Four hundred years after Bermuda’s legislature met in St Peter’s Church for the first time, the ...
DATE: Nov 12, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
Cole Simons’s accession as leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, and therefore Leader of the Opposition, signals that the party is beginning to accept its humbling at the polls on October 1 and is beginning the long process of rebuilding.
That rebuildi...
DATE: Nov 02, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
Thanks to new statistics, it is possible to better gauge just how damaging the Covid-19 lockdown was to the economy and what the prospects for economic recovery are.
Overall, the damage done was very high, but it was also varied. Tourism and related ...
DATE: Oct 26, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
Victors of landslide election victories do not often get stark reminders of the limits of power within days of their election triumph, but that is what happened to the Progressive Labour Party last week with the controversy over the Rolfe Commissiong...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
Cognitive dissonance is defined as the state of having inconsistent thoughts.
If you have been experiencing this feeling since David Burt announced his new Cabinet on Thursday, you are not alone.
Here’s why. In August, Rolfe Commissiong resigned th...
DATE: Oct 10, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
Psychologists have identified five stages to the grieving process. They are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
A week after the One Bermuda Alliance’s catastrophic General Election defeat, its leaders are still stuck on denial.
T...
DATE: Oct 09, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
David Burt, the Premier, was entitled to some time off after his massive election victory last week.
But soon enough, he needs to get back to work. The first order of business is to appoint a Cabinet, which he has promised by Thursday. Mr Burt is sp...
DATE: Oct 06, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
Give credit to David Burt. The Premier is a master politician.
When he called the General Election five weeks ago, he caught the One Bermuda Alliance on the back foot, placed a figurative noose around the neck of the barely nascent Free Democratic M...
DATE: Oct 02, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion
Viewers of the old yet still startlingly accurate British TV series Yes Minister will know that when the hapless hero, Cabinet minister Jim Hacker, came up with a bold new idea, his civil servant, Sir Humphrey, would quickly damn it with praise in a ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2020
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RG: In our Opinion