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Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith was right in one respect when she issued her statement on the school suspension policy last week.
If we teach our children anything, it is that we should abide by the rules and regulations that have been laid d...
DATE: May 17, 2011
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Editorials
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After many decades of adjusting and revamping our educational system, it is still worryingly unclear whether what we have will ensure that the next generation is fully equipped to meet our ever increasing challenges.
Emphasis is placed on what is bei...
DATE: May 17, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
May 15, 2011
Dear Sir,
Regarding “Students suspended for ‘the wrong reasons” (Saturday, May 14), I was so frustrated by the Minister's comments I felt compelled to write a response. As an educator of more than 20 years and an administrator I feel the...
DATE: May 17, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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May 12, 2011
Dear Sir,
The opinion piece by former PLP Senator Phil Perinchief in The Royal Gazette of May 10 entitled “Transforming the Economy” reminded me vividly of the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx in 1848. It uses the same terminolog...
DATE: May 13, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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May 9, 2011
Dear Sir,
On Friday, May 6, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Bermuda held its annual Tag Day at several locations in the city of Hamilton as well as in St George and Somerset and select locations in Smith’s, Devonshire, Paget, Warwick an...
DATE: May 12, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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May 2, 2011
Dear Sir,
On Sunday (May 1) MP Dale Butler made reference to the black Institutions which were once the mainstay of black Bermudian’s culture and values and which gave hope and comfort in the days of greatest oppression and economic exclu...
DATE: May 10, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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May 2, 2011
Dear Sir,
With this latest tragedy of a young man shot for no reason, I feel compelled to state the obvious to the public. Stop voting for an inept Government. Crime and prices are the only things that have gone up under the PLP governmen...
DATE: May 09, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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Keep ferries runningMay 6, 2011
Dear Sir,
Being Bermuda born and now retired from work in England, I would like to visit Bermuda every two years to meet up with friends and visit my old haunts. I managed this in 2003, 2005 and 2007, but with the fina...
DATE: May 09, 2011
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Letters to the Editor
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Although the formal dissolution of the United Bermuda Party won’t take place until Tuesday, the UBP effectively shut down this week, and did so not with a bang but a whimper.
In many ways, this is bittersweet, and it would be wrong not to acknowledg...
DATE: May 06, 2011
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Editorials
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May 4, 2011
Dear Sir,
Message to Antony Santucci and all his fellow sheep who blindly follow the bleatings of the PLP: Keep telling the voters that the One Bermuda Alliance is the same old, same old ... and then tell them about the triceratops people...
DATE: May 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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