76 results returned for search: "education AND " author Christopher Famous
“The stone that the builder refused has become the head cornerstone.”
— Psalm 118:22
Growing up in the rural mountains of Tortola in the Virgin Islands, my mother and her four sisters never had to worry about going hungry, being bullied or ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2021
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Christopher Famous
For too many years Bermudians have been fed with the narrative that we need to become more like the Cayman Islands, specifically with regard to work-permit and status issues.
Realistically, it is hard to argue with things like budget surpluses and in...
DATE: Apr 03, 2021
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Christopher Famous
“See the hypocrites, dem a galang deh” – B
ob Marley
It is always amusing to hear persons or organisations expose a degree of hypocrisy between what they say versus what they actually do.
After the October 2020 General Election, and with a ch...
DATE: Mar 19, 2021
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Christopher Famous
Last Friday, there was a General Election held in our sister Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI).
Bermudian Colony
Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller...
DATE: Feb 26, 2021
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Christopher Famous
“Oft as we can we will come back again
”Here oft you will find us”
— Berkeley School Song
Fellow Berkeleyites, I greet you today on the 123rd anniversary of the founding of our school, our home, the Berkeley Institute.
Imagine, if you ...
DATE: Oct 23, 2020
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Christopher Famous
As young children and as cousins, persons such as Dwayne Caines, Wayne Michael Caines, Roxanne Christopher, myself and many others were labelled in the negative, based solely on our mothers or fathers coming from the West Indies.
With total disregard...
DATE: Aug 28, 2020
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Christopher Famous
Last Sunday, during my morning stroll through Facebook, I glanced at a long thread. Perhaps one of the longest threads in recent local social-media history.
More than 800 comments generated by an extremely false claim that the Bermuda Government was ...
DATE: May 01, 2020
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Christopher Famous
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” — Margaret Thatcher
I find it amusing and interesting, yet not surpris...
DATE: Jan 24, 2020
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Christopher Famous
Dear Jason,
By the time you read this, the results will be in and final. No matter the results, you are always a winner to us, your family.
Why do I say this?
Well, basically, since the day you were born, the family have seen you take the path of l...
DATE: Nov 22, 2019
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Christopher Famous
Last week during the motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly, those in the chambers and, indeed, the wider listening audience were treated to former Cabinet minister Sylvan Richards throwing a challenge to members of the Progressive Labour Party.
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DATE: Oct 04, 2019
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Christopher Famous