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New Zealand made the right call to shelve a widely anticipated interest-rate increase. The central bank should resist the temptation to merely delay by a month or two. The global recovery has probably peaked and the most consequential monetary author...
DATE: Aug 19, 2021
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On August 9, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — a panel of leading global scientists — published an interim report that summarises how well the human family are doing in addressing the climate crisis.
UN Secretary-General Ant...
DATE: Aug 18, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Glenn Fubler
As the American military pulled out of Afghanistan, Kabul fell with stunning speed to determined fighters with medieval desires about everything but the accoutrements of war.
Taleban fighters with their long beards and long guns drove through the ci...
DATE: Aug 18, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Robin Givhan
The Bermuda Turtle Project is anxious to get back out onto the water this month to get a clearer picture of sea turtle abundance. Due to the restrictions brought upon us all by the pandemic, we have been unable to do any in-water research for nearly ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Jennifer Gray
On a beautiful sunny day in July 1988, I sat with my great-aunt, Edith Burgess, as she recalled a church picnic held in 1903. She was 96 at the time and blessed with the remarkable gift of recall. It is only now that I realise she was recollecting a ...
DATE: Aug 16, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Cecille Snaith-Simmons
As if there were not enough challenges facing countries around the world, including our island home Bermuda, no longer lurking in the shadows is a threat that no country large or small can ignore. Climate change has become the subject that scientists...
DATE: Aug 14, 2021
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Al Seymour
Over the past week, the Caribbean region has lost two of its foremost statesmen. Similar in age and political era.
Both were part of the political maturation of their respective islands, closely involved in the leadership that took their countries fr...
DATE: Aug 13, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
What does dominance mean to you? It is a complicated concept, after all. Are your thoughts drawn towards the likes of Mistress Marley, an online dominatrix whose followers send her financial tributes in exchange for receiving verbal abuse? Or do you ...
DATE: Aug 13, 2021
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With the threat from the Delta variant bearing down across the United States, it is almost hard to remember the heady days this summer when many of us were experiencing relief, joy, even euphoria as we began to resurface from the pandemic. Barbecues ...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021
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I applaud Andrew Cuomo for resigning as Governor of NewYork. The governance and the work of the state needed to be the highest priority, and his resignation was the better thing to do.
With regard to the allegations of sexual harassment, as a govern...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi