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The dentist Ronda James wrote an excellent Letter to the Editor entitled “Health plan grandstanding” published on Tuesday, which, among other things, made a connection between the coronavirus crisis and the proposed healthcare reforms advoc...
DATE: Apr 16, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Let me introduce you to Bermuda’s new status quo — our public education.
For context, I refer you to the year 2013, when our public schools’ mathematics and science results had a very poor IGCSE showing, with only 19 per cent of students g...
DATE: Apr 01, 2020
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Dear Sir,
On the afternoon of Friday, January 31, I met one of Bermuda’s best ambassadors. While on the No 8 bus to Dockyard, the bus stopped for a lady passenger to exit at the stop by the Bermuda Institute.
A Bermuda Institute student helped the l...
DATE: Mar 06, 2020
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Dear Sir,
I would like to submit a poem, which gives the perspective of the TN Tatem Middle School building after the decision to permanently close it as a school premises.
The End
To you I’m just a building
Just some walls with mould infested ceil...
DATE: Mar 04, 2020
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Dear Sir,
I read with considerable interest the contribution from Peter Everson and Robert Stewart in The Royal Gazette of February 18, 2020 regarding the need to fix our education system.
They are right, but they seem to be missing vital parts of t...
DATE: Feb 24, 2020
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Dear Sir,
It saddens me to read the report in the paper today (February 10, 2020) quoting Jason Hayward’s comments on the Patients 1st assembly in Queen Elizabeth II Park.
It would surprise me to know if the MP — the people’s representative from Pemb...
DATE: Feb 13, 2020
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It was with some dismay I read the article published on November 28 with the headline “MWI refuses to admit mentally ill man”. While I cannot discuss individual patient details, I feel it is important that the community understands that any...
DATE: Dec 10, 2019
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Dear Sir,
I have already written to you of my concerns about the Government’s plans to restructure healthcare. As stated previously, I agree with the goal, which, in a nutshell, is to have a healthy population.
After practising dentistry for more th...
DATE: Nov 26, 2019
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Dear Sir,
Tucked away on Page 9 of The Royal Gazette of November 12 is the bad news for young Bermudians up to Primary 6 level; that, under the Cambridge Checkpoint system, they achieved in mathematics a score of 1.9 out of a potential 6.
A disgra...
DATE: Nov 18, 2019
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Dear Sir,
Even under better economic circumstances, the continuance of the people’s business, concurrent regular-performance reporting of same and the plan for the next 12 months needs personal broadcast by the Premier to the entire tax base, as that...
DATE: Nov 05, 2019
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