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Joe Biden announced last week that he had issued a general pardon for all those convicted of the federal crime of simple cannabis possession. This applies to about 6,500 people and possibly numerous others convicted of the same crime in the District ...
DATE: Oct 10, 2022
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I think it was the year 2000 when Stanley Ratteray chaired a mini-symposium for the United Bermuda Party, which was then trying to find its way after election defeat in 1998.
I had expressed the position internally, and externally it was time for the...
DATE: Oct 08, 2022
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Khalid Wasi
What a difference a month makes.
On September 5, the British public were inundated with newspaper headlines heralding Liz Truss as the next Prime Minister of Britain. She had won the internal election fair and square in a contest against former chanc...
DATE: Oct 07, 2022
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Christopher Famous
“You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”
— Abraham Lincoln
What follows is the Progressive Labour Party’s secret step-by-step blueprint for u...
DATE: Oct 06, 2022
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Vic Ball
We should never give in to apathy even when seemingly horribly lost. We each live inside of our own spheres of influence and it is too easy to say to oneself one cannot make a difference, particularly when it appears that power is distributed so narr...
DATE: Oct 05, 2022
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Khalid Wasi
What do Neanderthals have to do with medicine? More than enough, it turns out, to earn Svante Pääbo the Nobel Prize in Medicine for sequencing the Neanderthal genome. It may sound more like a feat worthy of an anthropology prize, but scientists are a...
DATE: Oct 05, 2022
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Faye Flam
At Bermuda College’s forum, titled “Murder in Paradise”, panellists offered thought-provoking perspectives on the involvement of Black males in the present cycle of violence — a phenomenon described by moderator Victoria Pearman as a complex problem....
DATE: Oct 04, 2022
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Glenn Fubler
The airport dilemma with the firefighters is the latest indicator of our ageing population but also a test of our standing in the world of trade and technology. Truthfully, it would not matter what area of the economy we compare; we would still show ...
DATE: Oct 03, 2022
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Khalid Wasi
As Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its eighth month, the European Union scrambles for energy to heat its homes and power its industry in the coming winter, the United States and China continue to rattle sabres at each other over Taiwan, and smalle...
DATE: Oct 03, 2022
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Thomas L. Knapp
Despite pleas from Joe Biden, Republican senators blocked the Disclose Act, legislation that would require advocacy groups to provide names of donors who give $10,000 or more if they advocate for particular candidates or issues.
Biden emphasised the ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2022
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