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Queen Elizabeth II passed away as the longest living monarch. Her funeral was perhaps the most viewed funeral, making it another milestone for the records. It could be said also that since the conquest of England by William of Normandy at the Battle ...
DATE: Sep 22, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II was majestic, historic and very, very long. It was a procession of prayers and hymns, buglers and solemn bagpipers all tucked into two services and one interment and watched by a global audience. But the two minutes ...
DATE: Sep 22, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Robin Givhan
Malcolm Raynor writes that our small size could be used to our competitive advantage if there were greater unity exhibited on island
DATE: Sep 20, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Malcolm Raynor
The death of Queen Elizabeth II has offered one of those reflective opportunities that allows for expanding one’s appreciation and understanding of a complex world.
First, let me declare my personal bias as one who would have been 2 years old when th...
DATE: Sep 17, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Glenn Fubler
One of the hallmarks of Bermuda is the kindness that we show each other as human beings. Especially when someone is in a time of challenge or distress. More often than not, this empathy forms a part of our customer service etiquette.
About a month ag...
DATE: Sep 17, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
In late August, the only Black starting player on Duke University's women’s volleyball team reported that an opposing fan hurled racist taunts, including slurs, during a match at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. According to social-media acco...
DATE: Sep 17, 2022
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The death of Elizabeth II, while inevitable and expected — she was 96, after all — has still produced a degree of shock in many. This is not unexpected — the monarchy as a whole has a complex legacy, and the duration of her reign is such that many si...
DATE: Sep 16, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Starling
“It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled”
— Mark Twain
Hindsight always affords us the opportunity to see precisely why David Burt cunningly rushed back to the polls in a snap election two years earl...
DATE: Sep 15, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Vic Ball
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children."
These are the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and anti-Nazi dissident. He was later executed at the Flossenbürg concentrati...
DATE: Sep 13, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bob Richards
It was the great Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm who remarked that “for a variety of reasons, Italy is a sort of laboratory of political experiences”. Jonathan Foot’s remarkable The Archipelago: Italy Since 1945 certainly seems to bear this observati...
DATE: Sep 12, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Starling
