4229 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion"
I cannot count the times I have been stopped and asked about Dr Michelle Alexander's presentation at the CURB Racial Justice Conference at the end of March. By word of mouth her powerful message has reached far more people than attended the conferenc...
DATE: May 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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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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Editorials
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26 April, 2012
Dear Sir,
I’d like to reply to the letter that appeared in your newspaper of today, signed Chris, which made much of the One Bermuda Alliance’s failure to publish an election manifesto. I understand Chris’s anxiety, because the Governm...
DATE: Apr 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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Can you imagine what this would be like: You go home after a long day at work. You are tired. You eat. You watch a little television — something truly mindless — and it lulls you asleep. Several hours go by, and then you wake up in the middle of the ...
DATE: Apr 24, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Philip Brownell
A love story: Boy meets Girl. Both consider ‘love’ to be their driving value in a relationship. Great! Each loves the other but after a while both turn and say, “you never show that you love me!”
“What?” cries each offended party. “I do so, all the ...
DATE: Apr 24, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
Wassup Bermuda? We couldn’t even get through Easter without violence? Cha man! What am I ever gonna do with my Island home? Well, I will keep praying for Bermuda. But we have to ditch our sense of entitlement.
In my opinion, one of the most shocking...
DATE: Apr 13, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
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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CATEGORY:
Editorials
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April 7, 2012
Dear Sir,
Below is a blog that I posted in response to The Royal Gazette's article on line re the Good Friday shooting and machete attacks.
“You can have all of the education in the world, but if you don't have any common sense you mig...
DATE: Apr 10, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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In the second of a three-part series focusing on Bermuda’s public debt situation, Nathan Kowlaski looks at the the different scenarios that could unfold in the coming years.
In assessing potential outcomes in the trajectory of the debt profile in Be...
DATE: Apr 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
What would happen if Bermuda, on the issue of marital equality (previously called same-sex marriage), decided to catch up with the rest of the world and conducted a nationwide referendum on it?
What would the voting be?
I ask because in Maryland, US...
DATE: Apr 04, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ric Chapman
