186 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Editorials"
In the late 1940s the attack dogs of the extreme American right first began to howl about Hollywood.
In the paranoid Cold War climate that prevailed, Reds were routinely being spotted under every bed – including the ornate four-posters at some of th...
DATE: Feb 25, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Politicians are a risk-averse breed as a rule.
Not for them any grand deed or word, any principled beau geste, which flies in the face of the popular mood. Not for them any bold initiative which challenges outdated but entrenched social conventions o...
DATE: Jan 17, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Unlike the rest of us, who trudged wearily back to work this week, Parliament’s Christmas holiday extends until February.
Which is not to say the daily business of governance doesn’t go on. It does, of course. But Bermudians will have to wait until l...
DATE: Jan 07, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
You don’t need cartoonist Peter Woolcock’s highly developed sense of the absurd to recognise the comic possibilities — and improbabilities — of Bermudian politics.
The House of Assembly has, of course, long been the setting for low farce as well as h...
DATE: Dec 12, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
RG: In our opinion
It would be a fatuous understatement to suggest Bermuda’s secondary public education system deserves a failing grade. The grim reality is we have offered up generations of Bermuda students as human sacrifices to the false gods of ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2014
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“Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us … All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their time.” — Ecclesiasticus
Those who attain an undeserved standing in any society never really overshadow those who...
DATE: Jun 23, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
You see it in the faces of too many young Bermudians. Or, more precisely, you don’t.
The look of hope — of buoyant expectancy — which should be lighting their eyes is too often missing.
They should be embarking on young adulthood with a sense of wo...
DATE: May 10, 2014
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In reading an article on education by New York Times writer Adam Grant of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, I felt a need to take some of that material and relate it to what seems to be part of our proverbial problem.
With the con...
DATE: May 05, 2014
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Sir John Swan
We have overspent and under-saved. The base of our income has been eroded by our attitudes, policies and the changes taking place in the global economies.
And we continue to remain in economic depression as indicated by the contraction of Bermuda’s G...
DATE: Apr 21, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Sir John Swan
It is not by any means a scientific poll, but perhaps an indicator of how the Country is thinking.
Yesterday a poll on www.royalgazette.com asked: If Government holds a referendum on gaming later this year, which way will you vote?” There were 3,067 ...
DATE: Jun 06, 2013
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