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Education has been a controversial issue in Bermuda for quite some time, and despite input from overseas experts, along with home grown expertise, it remains a complex subject with numerous challenges that unresolved, could hamper efforts to provide ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Dear Sir,
Back in the 80s, a feeler was put out to Government, proposing that some areas of Dockyard would make extraordinary film, TV and music production facilities: a classic studio “lot” with sound-stages ready-built (like fortresses), set shops,...
DATE: Aug 22, 2013
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Letters to the Editor
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August 13, 2013
Dear Sir,
When I attended Devonshire Academy many years ago, there was the strict rules about shirt being tucked it, right type of shoes, no big time jewellery, right colour socks etc ... and now at CedarBridge years later, no student...
DATE: Aug 21, 2013
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Letters to the Editor
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August 19, 2013
Dear Sir,
Transferring teachers again? Why not principals who feel worrying about what a students wears, providing it’s not ripped and within school regulations, instead of disciplining students who jump another student, and are stran...
DATE: Aug 20, 2013
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Letters to the Editor
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A rather patronising phrase of Mr GB Shaw’s, but last weekend in Wales, attending my (dare I admit it) 20-year high school reunion, I glimpsed its reality.
Mine was no horrendous Hollywood-version of high school. I have been looking forward to return...
DATE: Aug 13, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
August 6, 2013
Dear Sir,
On behalf of Del Hollis and myself, we would like to thank all of those who supported, contributed and participated in our summer camp during the month of July.
It was an amazing experience working with such wonderful, respe...
DATE: Aug 10, 2013
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Letters to the Editor
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Make your university degree count, financially! Bermuda island students are readying their itineraries for the giant step of a first year in university, or returning to fully complete their degrees. Some may have already chosen a major, while some ar...
DATE: Aug 10, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
By Don Mackenzie
Member, The SAGE Commission
Bermudians Own Our Public Debt
In response to the SAGE Commission’s interim report released in July, one blogger asked why the Commission had included a graph showing the debt per working Bermudian.
The bl...
DATE: Aug 08, 2013
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Other
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(Second of two parts)
Unit labour cost (“ULCs”) is a well-known measure of international competitiveness which combines labour cost and productivity into a single measure. In general, unit labour costs show how much output the economy receives relati...
DATE: Aug 05, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
July 30, 2013
Dear Sir,
The article by Sam Strangeways on the African Diaspora Heritage Trail (Royal Gazette July 25, 2013) is written in a in a certain context, one that is very legitimate for a reporter. It is a concern about taxpayers’ money and h...
DATE: Aug 03, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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