186 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Editorials"
The finding of a Coroner’s jury that prison inmate Kino Outerbridge died of a heroin overdose while at Westgate Correctional Facility shines a light on a reality that few want to admit, and even fewer wish to tackle.
The reality is that Bermuda’s pr...
DATE: Jun 01, 2012
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Yesterday, The Royal Gazette launched a campaign to raise $1m for the New Beginnings Education Trust so it can continue to run programmes for the benefit of the young people of Bermuda. The target is by far our most ambitious to date.
The campaign ha...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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The recent report on drug use among school students gave some reason for cheer, since the survey showed that its prevalence is lower than it was the last time a survey was done in 2007.
But the fact that more than half the students have drunk alcoho...
DATE: Apr 30, 2012
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In most people’s minds, Good Friday is associated with religion, kites, marbles and fishcakes, but for many it will also be tied to the brutal murder of Kimwandae Walker on Victor Scott Primary School’s field during a community day.
That unsolved mur...
DATE: Apr 11, 2012
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Salvation Army volunteer, honours student and Carifta Games hopeful, CedarBridge Academy student Akeila Richardson is clearly an outstanding young lady and wholly deserving of the Outstanding Teen Award.
Other young people also won awards for sports,...
DATE: Mar 27, 2012
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Debate about privatisation of Government services has been reignited as a result of the yawning Budget gap.
The notion of closing that gap by wiping out the losses many Government services incur, along with the injection of cash that would result fr...
DATE: Mar 01, 2012
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There’s a good deal of political point-scoring going on around Parliamentary salary cuts, and it is important to remember first principles in this.
First, it is welcome news that the Progressive Labour Party Government has finally embraced the idea ...
DATE: Feb 14, 2012
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Dr Joseph Froncioni has long been the leading advocate for making Bermuda’s roads safer.
As a surgeon and later as chairman of the Road Safety Council, he saw too many examples of lives being lost or irreparably injured not to do something about it....
DATE: Jan 19, 2012
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A furore has arisen over the decision to place a temporary executive principal at Prospect Primary School.
This has occurred because the Ministry of Education has become concerned about underperformance at the school and test scores have shown interv...
DATE: Jan 10, 2012
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Few people will have been sorry to see the back of 2011, a year in which the Bermuda economy continued to decline and the spectre of serious crime still hung over the Island.
So it is better to look forward rather than backwards, although it is to be...
DATE: Jan 04, 2012
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