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The moment that Cecilia Wollmann clinched for herself a place at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro this summer, she improved the lot of all young Bermudians who aspire to reach the pinnacle of their sport.
In becoming the youngest sailor to qualify...
DATE: Feb 01, 2016
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The “diss” track. So now we know what they're doing in their downtime — when they're not shooting, looting and looking to turn an illegal profit by pushing illicit drugs into the mouths, noses, arms and other assorted body parts of the weak.
The weak...
DATE: Jan 29, 2016
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There’s sometimes as much beautiful symmetry associated with the “beautiful game” off the field as there is on it.
Last week’s signing of Bermudian Nathan Trott by Barclays Premier League stalwarts West Ham United is one such example.
Described by t...
DATE: Jan 28, 2016
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The 2015 Labour Force Survey released last month revealed that unemployment in Bermuda had dropped to 7 per cent. That was a cause of celebration for some, without going over the top, while others bemoaned that the “real” figures — the numbers behind...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016
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What were they thinking?
Some serious questions need to be answered about why the Spirit of Bermudachose to put to sea with a party of schoolchildren on a day when you didn't need to consult a barometer to accurately predict the weather conditions.
A...
DATE: Jan 22, 2016
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The most striking element of Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address as President of the United States was the declaration to take the fight against the world’s most skilled and elusive killer to unprecedented levels.
Some proclaimed that Tue...
DATE: Jan 15, 2016
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It’s difficult to go for very long without hearing about the millennial generation. Loosely described as people now aged between 20 and 35, there seems to be a widespread fascination with how they live and what they want from work. Type “what baby bo...
DATE: Jan 14, 2016
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Arguably his entire adult life was a work of art in continual progress. On and off the stage, David Bowie was one of the great showmen of modern times, maybe of all time. He channelled his prodigious creative energies not only into his work but into ...
DATE: Jan 13, 2016
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Not one death on Bermuda’s roads is acceptable. And after a weekend when the country has buried one young man, while two fortunate others are recuperating in hospital, our leaders must continue to grapple with ways by which we can reach farther into ...
DATE: Jan 11, 2016
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Did he or didn’t he? That has been the question that world leaders and those who fear for our future wellbeing will have been pondering since Kim Jong Un announced on Wednesday that he had tested North Korea’s first hydrogen bomb.
The truth of the ma...
DATE: Jan 08, 2016
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