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“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and taking the politicians as a joke.”
The dispute raging between the Bermuda Industrial Union and the labour government was predictable to anyone following the events between ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Vic Ball
“We have found the enemy, and it is not each other.”
— Heather McGhee, The Sum Of Us
This could easily get out of hand — and here I am referring not only to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has that potential, but to the ways in which people are ...
DATE: Sep 02, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
“The pen is mightier than the sword” is a word picture as a metaphor created by an English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, which characterises how powerful and superior effective words, information and even education can be in resolving conflict...
DATE: Aug 30, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
"What do astronauts look like?"
That question sits at the top of the Instagram page that Lisa Alcindor, an aspiring astronaut, created. Next to it, a photograph shows a figure hidden beneath a darkened helmet, allowing the mind for a moment to imagin...
DATE: Aug 30, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Theresa Vargas
At this writing, tensions are mounting over a labour dispute between the Bermuda Government and the Bermuda Industrial Union over an issue regarding who should or should not be eligible to vote on the matter of union decertification.
This for the un...
DATE: Aug 28, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Before the summer break, the Senate debated legislation that allowed the Government to extend the financial-assistance payment limit by two years. In practical terms, the change allowed eligible, able-bodied recipients of financial assistance to rece...
DATE: Aug 28, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Robin Tucker
Often, perhaps too often, we see persons post “negative reviews” online in reference to some customer experience that they had that did not go so well.
With the quickness of social media, more often than not, the manager or owner of the establishment...
DATE: Aug 27, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
Few areas of our lives have been unaffected by the ripple effects of the pandemic, and relationships are no exception. Health and financial worries are well-known stressors on any marriage, but Covid restrictions also forced many couples into unusual...
DATE: Aug 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Bailey-Munroe
From a 15-foot industrial ladder, in the dim light of the warehouse, the bankers boxes resemble coffins — 28,455 stacked in rows up to 12 high, four wide, 70 deep, boxes containing 93 million pages of paper — in a mausoleum to cigarette smoking.
Here...
DATE: Aug 27, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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I had hoped never to have to write about an issue such as this episode between the Bermuda Industrial Union and the Government — in reality, about Chris Furbert and David Burt, the leaders of both groups. The stated issue of disagreement over the tra...
DATE: Aug 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
