189 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Editorials"
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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AUTHOR:
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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Today — Earth Day — a petition will be officially launched aimed at creating a 25-cent fee attached to paper and disposable plastic bags.
It is being coordinated by Greenrock and the Bermuda Marine Debris Taskforce, an informal group of interested in...
DATE: Apr 22, 2013
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Anthony Francis sounds like a man with a mission — a mission which cannot be allowed to fail.
As the new chairman of the board of CedarBridge, he says in today’s Royal Gazette: “Berkeley, Warwick Academy and TN Tatem all have history — we’re creating...
DATE: Mar 07, 2013
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Drinking and driving in Bermuda is a national pastime and, unfortunately, socially acceptable. So is speeding on the roads.
According to police statistics, 76 people were arrested for impaired driving after accidents last year. No doubt, that does no...
DATE: Mar 02, 2013
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How many times have you almost knocked down a ‘third laner’ trying to switch lanes? How many times have you experienced erratic driving because a motorist is too busy texting? How many times have you seen a mangled bike at the side of the road?
The ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2013
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It was not so much what was said, it was the order in which it was said that was instructive.
Jobs, debt, jobs, small business, entrepreneurs, jobs. That was the first seven pages, then came tourism and then crime. Hitting all the right buttons early...
DATE: Feb 09, 2013
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Yesterday, this newspaper called for shock tactics to be used to address our behaviour on the roads in the wake of five deaths in as many weeks.
Today, on this page, Joseph Froncioni, a former chairman of the Bermuda Road Safety Council, says: “Speed...
DATE: Feb 05, 2013
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Allegations made against Education Minister Nalton Brangman by Walton Brown that he did not take some qualifications mentioned on his CV are extremely serious.
In the overall scheme of things, the actual qualifications referred to are really neither ...
DATE: Jan 31, 2013
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