125 results returned for search: "education AND " author RG: In our Opinion
From the moment that the Bermuda Union of Teachers suggested that the Premier get involved in the dispute that has thrown public education into crisis, you could take that in the least as a subliminal vote of no confidence in the Ministry of Educatio...
DATE: Dec 12, 2018
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Neil Speight handing in his resignation as chief executive of the Bermuda Cricket Board recently was not so much a case of him abandoning a sinking ship but a matter of affixing an oxygen tank to his back with flippers to deliver him from the ocean d...
DATE: Oct 30, 2018
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This is Cup Match week. The teams have been selected, Somerset Cricket Club and its grounds are being made to look smart, and revellers are at the ready for festivities all over the island. The buzz of excitement is palpable.
The hope is that we have...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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John Rankin has had a pretty rough time of it from the moment he was sworn in as Governor of Bermuda — a mere ten days after civil unrest, literally on the streets of Parliament.
Starting from the fallout of December 2, 2016, a date that will be infa...
DATE: Jun 26, 2018
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One step forward, two steps backward.
Push, pull.
Accusation, counter-accusation.
Punch, counterpunch.
Just when we think we’re getting somewhere, actually we’re not.
This entire mess over Bermuda’s political leaders tearing strips out of the country...
DATE: Jun 08, 2018
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We seek and deserve an overdue apology from Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education and Workforce Development. This is not because the Bow-tied One has gone out of his way to create a war footing with The Royal Gazette. It is because there is the li...
DATE: Apr 27, 2018
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It is not unreasonable to conclude that had Parliament not reconvened until February 9, 2019 rather than this morning, John Rankin would still be giving “careful consideration” to the Domestic Partnership Act 2017.
Since the Senate gave its approval ...
DATE: Feb 09, 2018
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So the prodigal son has made it back from the abyss. The People’s Campaign for Equality, Jobs and Justice announced its return to relevance last week after an extended spell in hibernation during which the future of one its three kingpins was placed ...
DATE: Jan 12, 2018
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Someone within the Bermuda Tourism Authority believes that an internal e-mail circulated by the chief executive that effectively takes The Royal Gazette to task for misleading the public is newsworthy.
The leaker, whose future at the BTA must surely ...
DATE: Nov 29, 2017
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By the mid-1970s, neglect, time and the elements had inflicted more punishment on the massive ramparts and buildings of the Keep at Bermuda’s old Royal Naval Dockyard than any of the potential military enemies it had been built to guard against.
The ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2017
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