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Bermuda needs an educated workforce. And it’s that time again for many students on the island. They are struggling with those interminable university application forms with the excruciating wait to see if they’ve been accepted at the right school.
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DATE: Jan 12, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
My frustration and disagreement with the ”union mentality“ I described previously is well documented, as is my desire to discourage persons having a ’welfare mentality‘. It is also my belief that the haves should help the have nots. But we have a res...
DATE: Jan 11, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
January 9, 2013
Dear Sir,
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to respond to an article which appeared recently in The Royal Gazette entitled, ‘Conscription must end, but not now’. First let me say that every now and then an article is written,...
DATE: Jan 10, 2013
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Letters to the Editor
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Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley in today’s paper says he supports doing away with conscription — music, no doubt, to the ears of many a young man in Bermuda.
But is it the right time to go down that route? Question: What are some of the major ...
DATE: Jan 07, 2013
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Editorials
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January 5, 2013
Dear Sir
For the record, I’m white, I do not smoke or use illegal drugs but for close to 20 years I have argued with family and friends about the need to decriminalise drugs. Recent blogs have discussed legally growing cannabis in Ber...
DATE: Jan 07, 2013
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Letters to the Editor
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January 4, 2013
Dear Sir
Open Letter to the Minister for Education.
By now you have heard of education in Finland. There is little homework, few grades, long recesses, lots of free time and the teachers are paid like lawyers. The children get first o...
DATE: Jan 07, 2013
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Letters to the Editor
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December 31, 2012
Dear Sir
I was disappointed, but on reflection not surprised, to read in today’s Royal Gazette Eva Hodgson’s op-ed on Marc Bean’s stated approach to the racial divide in Bermuda.
My disappointment stems from the belief that unless ...
DATE: Jan 02, 2013
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Letters to the Editor
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December 22, 2012
Dear Sir,
Here are a few thoughts of mine that I would like to impart to your readers.
When I write, I believe in calling a spade a spade and try to be as truthful to myself and to those reading as I possibly can. We live in a very ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2012
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Letters to the Editor
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Out with the Old and In with the New! This is the twelfth year of the New Year’s Day Resolution article.
It is a timely topic but a challenge to make the trite relevant in these difficult times.
This Old year looks back at times of many positive (a...
DATE: Dec 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
December 18, 2012
Dear Sir,
The Progressive Labour Party would’ve won if either Wayne Perinchief or Michael Weeks had been Premier. Why is that? Wayne Perinchief was right about the crime issue although he probably wouldn’t have been able to diminish...
DATE: Dec 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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