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"There's a crack, a crack, in everything/ That's how the light gets in" – Leonard Cohen's National Anthem, aka "Ring The Bell".
Parliament resumes and suddenly it starts to get sticky around here again. It's not just the humidity to which I am referr...
DATE: May 14, 2010
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An important function of education is the development of fundamental knowledge and skills necessary for future learning. The inability to read and write is one that will impede an individual's academic and social progress. The teacher is the person w...
DATE: May 13, 2010
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'Real warmth' for stranded students
Dear Sir
I have just returned to the UK with a party of 22 boys after an 'extended stay' in Bermuda as a result of the recent disruption to air traffic in Europe. At a time when there was blatant profiteering in m...
DATE: May 10, 2010
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Spare your mother tears
May 7, 2010
Dear Sir,
I write this letter as a new mother myself. I hope I'm helping give a Mother's Day gift to another mother.
This morning, I was driving behind a motorbike with a schoolgirl on it. She pulled out of her dri...
DATE: May 10, 2010
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'There is no need to light a candle in sunshine' – Another Chinese proverb
Let me be clear from the outset once again, Mr. Editor. This week's column is not about John Jefferis. It is about the Progressive Labour Party Government and the Coco Reef le...
DATE: May 07, 2010
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The protagonists have had a field day recently with their outlandish remarks trying to convince Bermudians, (in particular our elected members in parliament) that we should have gambling in Bermuda. Frankly the more I listen to them the more I am con...
DATE: May 06, 2010
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The annual conference of the National Council on Aging/American Society on Aging was held this year in Chicago. As in past years, I was like a whirling dervish trying to cover the two main streams of the conference – caregiving and work in an ageing ...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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Add issues to polls
April 29, 2010
Dear Sir,
Why can we not have a Survey, not on the popularity of potential leaders, but on the issues, particularly the issue of social justice, to which they plan to give priority? For me it would be the economic d...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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UBP is focused
April 28, 2010
Dear Sir,
Your correspondent James Jackson in a letter printed April 28 entitled “Nothing has changed” is totally mistaken in his remarks about the United Bermuda Party. I invite him to contact me directly and I would be...
DATE: May 03, 2010
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UBP is focused
April 28, 2010
Dear Sir,
Your correspondent James Jackson in a letter printed April 28 entitled "Nothing has changed" is totally mistaken in his remarks about the United Bermuda Party. I invite him to contact me directly and I would be...
DATE: May 03, 2010
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