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The following is a revised speech given at the PLP Annual Delegates Conference
Never in the annals of our modern political history in this country has a political party swept all before it in the manner that occurred on July 18, 2017.
It was a victo...
DATE: Nov 02, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Rolfe Commissiong
Dear Sir,
More than 200,000 children are exploited in India, working in harsh conditions.
Under labour exploitation, without access to education and without having covered their basic needs, these children suffer the consequences of a society that lo...
DATE: Oct 27, 2017
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Letters to the Editor
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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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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
Dear Sir,
Thank you for acknowledging the equality of the benevolence of my grandfather, Albert E. Nicholl.
May I convey how touched I was to read the inclusion of the help he bestowed for all youth in Bermuda and in founding the Sea Cadets, and his...
DATE: Oct 23, 2017
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Letters to the Editor
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Albert Nicholl the philanthropist, aside from formerly being engaged in deep military service, lived an eclectic life but would be better known and remembered more in Bermuda for his generosity.
Some of the beneficiaries of his generosity were the f...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
At times we find ourselves looking for a way forward out of any given set of challenges. Far too often we seek to reinvent the wheel when many of the solutions lie in our not too distant past.
Bermudians have historically come from diverse background...
DATE: Oct 13, 2017
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Dear Sir,
I refer to the recent controversy regarding the Commissioner of Education, Freddie Evans, who was apparently erroneously dismissed from his post via an e-mail communication to all teachers and principals, which was sent by the Permanent Sec...
DATE: Oct 12, 2017
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Letters to the Editor
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Most scientists feel a certain nervousness when the topic they research appears in the news. Overstatement is par for the course, misunderstanding a near-inevitability. But what could be more cringeworthy than the President of the United States engag...
DATE: Oct 12, 2017
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This past week has been very disheartening and unfortunate for the senior management team of the Department of Education.
How is it that the first dedicated Bermudian male Commissioner of Education was subjected to a breakdown in a routine human reso...
DATE: Oct 11, 2017
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A bevy of educators came to the Pickled Debaters and asked the great thinkers, how can education be improved.
And the wise men answered thusly:
The education system is like a large freight train running downhill. To change its course, one must apply ...
DATE: Oct 10, 2017
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