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Children's hospitals in the US are being slammed by the double whammy of the flu and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, even as Covid cases start to climb in some areas. With the winter holidays coming up, we seem to be headed straight toward a dre...
DATE: Dec 09, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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The report on self-determination is out now, so obviously the Cabinet has reviewed it and deemed it fit for public consumption.
Although Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, claimed the report did not make any recommendations, the report’s con...
DATE: Dec 08, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Bermuda Youth Connect is helping the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to get survey responses from Bermudians aged 18-35 to a Global Survey on Youth Digital Futures.
Bermuda’s current response rate is extremely low, making it important to ...
DATE: Dec 07, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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Bermuda Youth Connect
One of the indefensible assertions that’s re-emerged in recent days is that social media companies’ efforts to limit sharing of a New York Post story in October 2020 cost Donald Trump that year's presidential election.
This is a longstanding claim, m...
DATE: Dec 06, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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In the latest attempt by the One Bermuda Alliance to rewrite history, their most vocal advocate, Vic Ball, wrote things that are easily disproved.
Mr Ball said: “The PLP has gone all out, smearing the ten-year-old OBA with the worst of the racism of ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
I was barely 9 in the summer of 1951 when my parents took us on a trip to Jamaica. Little did we know that Hurricane Charlie, the deadliest tropical cyclone of the Atlantic hurricane season, would visit the island during our vacation.
On what appeare...
DATE: Dec 03, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Cecille Snaith-Simmons
Your government believes it is essential to not only lay out the facts after the recent press conference held by the Fishermen's Association of Bermuda. We also want to assure the public that, as your government, we remain committed to listening to, ...
DATE: Dec 02, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Lindsay Simmons
For anyone who thinks my calls for broader participation in political parties and wider voting to select party candidates and leaders is new, I have been on record since at least the early 1990s as an advocate.
Even before then, I advocated for 13 y...
DATE: Dec 01, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
It’s finally begun.
The federal Cannabis Act stipulates that the workings of the legislation be reviewed three years after coming into effect. That triggering date was the fall of 2021. The inquiry is one year late.
Nevertheless, it promises to be a ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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It has been said that Bermuda’s health problems are entirely due to Bermudians’ personal lifestyle choices when it comes to factors such as diet and activity. Specifically, overweight people not controlling what they eat and doing too little exercise...
DATE: Nov 30, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Annabel Fountain
