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Wassup Bermuda! I hit on a hot topic last week tourism which was addressed by another writer. Last week we were looking at how standards have dropped and we allow young people to do whatever the heck they want. We also looked at how some of them beha...
DATE: Jan 13, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
Education reform remains one of our most significant challenges. It tends not to produce stark headlines nor is it ever the topic of sustained debate in any public arena.
Yet major reforms are necessary and the Ministry of Education has set about mak...
DATE: Jan 11, 2012
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Walton Brown
January 5, 2011
Dear Sir,
After reading all these MPs’ reasons for the PLP not having a very high number of white people voting for them, I do find myself asking why have I never voted for the PLP. When I first came back to Bermuda from college 27 ye...
DATE: Jan 10, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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A furore has arisen over the decision to place a temporary executive principal at Prospect Primary School.
This has occurred because the Ministry of Education has become concerned about underperformance at the school and test scores have shown interv...
DATE: Jan 10, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Editorials
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As the new year unfolds with heightened anxiety and anticipation over a general election and what it could mean for Bermuda’s future, there remains an undercurrent of community concern that political game-playing will override the needs of the Bermud...
DATE: Jan 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Happy New Year Bermuda.
I will stay on the theme of our young people because each week I see or hear something that shocks me even more than what happened the week before.
This time I’m going to look at our young people’s lack of respect for authori...
DATE: Jan 06, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
December 29, 2011
Dear Sir,
I read your report on the recent budget statement and wish to make some comments.
The good
The burgeoning bureaucracy. I came to Bermuda in 1970 to take up the office of Parliamentary Counsel in the Attorney General’s Cham...
DATE: Jan 05, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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Few people will have been sorry to see the back of 2011, a year in which the Bermuda economy continued to decline and the spectre of serious crime still hung over the Island.
So it is better to look forward rather than backwards, although it is to be...
DATE: Jan 04, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Editorials
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) To: The Upper Ones
From: The Strategy Committee,
Re: The Alarming Behavior of College Students
The committee has been reconvened in haste to respond to a disturbing new trend: the uprisings by students on elite college campuses....
DATE: Jan 03, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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Happy New Year Bermuda!
Last week we looked at the issue of work ethic in the younger generation something that as a generation they are seriously lacking. There has been much discussion about workforce development of the Bermuda workforce and the n...
DATE: Dec 30, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT