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Dear Sir, Sad but true, all school students will receive an extra day off from school per month. In other words, the same obnoxious behaviour we used to find normally at the bus terminal is about to increase because: 1. Students still catch the bus f...

It isn’t rocket science. It isn’t brain surgery. Collaboration, while challenging, is not impossible. But it does require the political will and major effort to achieve the possible. Otherwise, like the word transparency and its equally attractive tw...

The transfer window closed on Monday and there was a lot of money spent by the clubs in Europe, not least the world record £85.3 million Real Madrid paid Tottenham for midfielder Gareth Bale. When you look at the prices they are paying for players to...

Census reports for 2000 and 2010 show that the number of Bermuda’s population aged 65 years and over (our “seniors”) increased from 6,722 in 2000 to 8,683 in 2010. This is an increase of 29.17 percent in ten years. During that period, the number of s...

I love the smell of newly sharpened pencils. Never mind the thrill of buying a new pencil case! I have a bit of a ‘thing’ for stationery but particularly when it’s mixed with the buzz of anticipation that comes with the start of a new year at school....

August 29, 2013 Dear Sir, Churchill School, never sold out to a private school. Robert Crawford School, never sold out to a private school. Prospect Secondary School for Girls, never sold out to a private school. Devonshire Academy, never sold out to...

Dear Sir, It is very rare that we hear anything positive about our public school teachers but I would like to acknowledge the sacrifice and dedication Ms Michelle Laylor, one of the mathematics teachers at Clearwater Middle School, has shown to her s...

Funny or not, sometimes it pays to have a sense of humour about the serious matters of state. Case in point: In response to predictions about more job losses before the year is out Finance Minister Bob Richards was quoted as saying, “statisticians do...

Governments in democratic jurisdictions large and small are constantly faced with decisions that give the people they serve satisfaction that their concerns are getting the utmost attention, or disappointment that somehow the decision-makers have los...