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Politically, Bermuda is set to face a long dark winter as the status quo sets in. The visit of the Bahamian premier gave us a reminder of the history of connection between the two PLPs. He, also for those who are aware of the connection between Dame ...
DATE: Nov 04, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
The reconvening of Parliament is upon us, Bermuda. This is when the elected government lays out its agenda for the legislative year. I implore every resident of Bermuda to listen to this year’s Throne Speech with scrutiny.
In the upcoming year, we sh...
DATE: Nov 04, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Dwayne Robinson
The Parliament of Westminister in London is considered “the mother of all parliaments”. For more than 900 years, laws have been passed inside those chambers that governed not only how England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland were run, but the entirety of...
DATE: Nov 04, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
God, they really hate her, don’t they?
I’m not talking about the man who allegedly attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband with hammer, but rather about the people who learnt about the assault — a skull fracture requiring admission into hospital admission — ...
DATE: Nov 02, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Monica Hesse
If the attempt by David Burt was to conceal that there was a significant divide in the Progressive Labour Party, then his Cabinet reshuffle came at an inappropriate time.
Wayne Furbert has been a member of the Cabinet in some capacity almost since he...
DATE: Nov 01, 2022
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
“They tried to bury me alive and here I am.”
By the time former-president-turned-Brazilian-president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke on Sunday night, celebrating an unlikely comeback at 77, his gravelly voice was even more hoarse than usual. It...
DATE: Nov 01, 2022
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In one of my earliest Hallowe'en memories, I am about 8 years old and following my Tía Cherola up an unfamiliar driveway.
She was dressed as a witch, a costume she chose every year, and I was an “old lady” wearing a white wig and brown faux fur shawl...
DATE: Oct 31, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Theresa Vargas
“Hereby it is manifest,” Thomas Hobbes wrote in 1651’s Leviathan, “that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.”
Hob...
DATE: Oct 31, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Thomas L. Knapp
Here in Bermuda, the war that has been waged by Russia against Ukraine since February 24, 2022, and related events such as fundraisers were initially covered quite well. However, as the war dragged on for weeks and then months, current news, which is...
DATE: Oct 29, 2022
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“Who the cap fits, let them wear it”
— Bob Marley
I am fully aware that the question posed in the title of this commentary is provocative. I also want all to know that the question raised is hyperbole. However, after the recent vote for the P...
DATE: Oct 28, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Vic Ball
