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Bermuda, Epidemics and the Lessons of History
The global Covid-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted our world for more than a year now, and it is natural to think we are living in unprecedented times, in which the Government, medical experts,...
DATE: Apr 20, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Michael Jarvis
“How can you be sitting there telling me that you care, when every time I look around, the people are suffering in every way, everywhere.”
— Bob Marley
We all feel it. There is a high level of fear, anxiety, concern and trepidation in our cou...
DATE: Apr 19, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Vic Ball
“Stop the racism!” “Stop the violence!” “Stop the hate!”
Chants that are synonymous with the struggle of Blacks around the world.
Chants crystallised last year, during the global Black Lives Matter movement.
As of recently, another ethnic minority gr...
DATE: Apr 16, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
The 20th-century Bermuda, which by then had become a larger and more diverse population compared with the century that went before, was characteristically different in that — rather than a symbiotic albeit uneven codependency — unleashed was a battle...
DATE: Apr 15, 2021
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Access to investment and finance has defined how island states are able to progress towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and plan their post-pandemic economic recovery. With the pressure of the past 12 months weighing ha...
DATE: Apr 15, 2021
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AUTHOR:
James Ellsmoor
Much of what we think we know about the domestic slave trade and domestic traders of enslaved people in the United States is wrong. To the extent most Americans think about the slave trade at all, they usually envision traders as people so brutal tha...
DATE: Apr 15, 2021
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More than a week ago, the Premier expressed concern that some families of elders who had loved ones in senior homes were refusing permission for the Covid vaccination to be administered to their relatives. I share his concern in the circumstances we ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Glenn Fubler
People lucky enough to have the option are looking forward to working from home more after the pandemic, polls suggest, provided they are not schooling from home at the same time. And polls also suggest employers are looking forward to offering that ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2021
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"Humbled"? That's not what comes to mind when you watch the viral video of two tiny-town Virginia police officers harass, humiliate, power-play and pepper spray Army officer Caron Nazario after they pulled him over on a dark stretch of road for no ob...
DATE: Apr 14, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Petula Dvorak
Most people know that exercise is good for us in the general sense; in the same way that they know celery is healthy and hot dogs are junk food. But what do we really know about it and what does it mean for our mental health?
Exercise has many positi...
DATE: Apr 14, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Gemma Harris
