128 results returned for search: "" category "Opinion Writer" author DJLT
A few days after the Boston debacle, I told a few friends that I expected the US authorities to eventually find whoever did this. I knew, even from TV programmes, that there was CCTV all over the place, there are satellites that observe your every mo...
DATE: Apr 26, 2013
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DJLT
The tragic and awful scenario that unfolded in Boston Massachusetts earlier this week has reminded me that Bermuda is a blessed little Island.
We get the occasional hurricane but we are fortunate to have been spared from major disaster.
The bomb tha...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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DJLT
I have a thought, as to why our education system isn’t working.
Some of today’s teachers are quite good, quite smart, quite effective and passionate about their work. But many are not.
When the Country was segregated, the best and brightest Bermudian...
DATE: Apr 12, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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DJLT
I believe in freedom of speech, but the content and tone of some of the blogs, letters to the editor, anonymous comments, etc concerns me. I am disturbed by the amount of hate, vitriol, negative sentiment that I hear, see, sense and feel in the tone ...
DATE: Apr 05, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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DJLT
I had the good fortune of attending the Sandys Rotary Club‘s 40th Anniversary Gala last weekend and along with that blessing came the privilege of hearing guest speaker Keith Fitz-Gerald.
The global financial expert is a New York Times bestselling bu...
DATE: Mar 22, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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DJLT
Listening to the Budget Debate over the past several days and the undignified behaviour that went on in the Honourable House of Assembly last weekend, I am reminded of a few things:
1. This is why I will probably not get into politics; I have no pati...
DATE: Mar 15, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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DJLT
Having read the Budget recently announced by the Minister of Finance, I am left to conclude that not much has changed.
There is one line I agree with in it: "A job is the best social programme ever invented.”
If we create more jobs, more people star...
DATE: Mar 08, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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DJLT
What a difference a few years makes. It almost seems as if the PLP is in the predicament that the UBP found itself in right after the 2008 General Election. Somewhat in tatters but definitely in transition. When you’re winning or think you have a goo...
DATE: Feb 22, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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DJLT
The new OBA Government has made some interesting moves.
Getting Progressive Labour Party MP Randy Horton to agree to be Speaker of the House was a coup it increases their majority by reducing the number of Opposition party voters by one.
Some peopl...
DATE: Feb 15, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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DJLT
Every now and then we get on to the subject of what do we do about the continuing rise of violence. We are losing, it seems, one young Bermudian male per week!!
The media this week published a statistic that since 2000 we have lost 140 young men thro...
DATE: Feb 08, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
