4155 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion"
Together for change
August 25, 2009
Dear Sir,
We, the group BERMUDIANS, wish to say a heartfelt "Thank You" to everyone who supported us in our actions of June 16, 19 and 26, 2009. Due to the sheer magnitude of e-mails, telephone calls and comments,...
DATE: Sep 08, 2009
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Larry was a giant
August 28, 2009
Dear Sir,
Your report in the August 27 Royal Gazette on the retirement of Larry Dennis as Auditor General was spot on. In a time when too many civil servants are drones, incompetent or just corrupt, Larry was a supe...
DATE: Sep 04, 2009
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"Thinking outside the box" is one of those bits of management jargon that has become so cliched that it is hard to take seriously.
But in floating the idea of changing the school year to a "year-round" school, that is exactly what the Ministry of Edu...
DATE: Sep 04, 2009
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The recent articles in The Royal Gazette focused around the occurrences of anti-social behaviour in Bermuda have been both timely and informative.
The comments by family campaigner Ms. Sheelagh Cooper should be considered deeply and reflected on as w...
DATE: Sep 03, 2009
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Bermuda is facing an uphill battle in trying to deal with serious attitude problems with some of our youth today, and any attempt to sugarcoat an issue that threatens our future could be dangerous.
If a survey was carried out on how parents view the ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2009
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Take $ out of drugs
August 27, 2009
Dear Sir,
Today's Royal Gazette reported on an individual who had been spared a jail sentence for impaired driving …and causing severe injuries to another road user the morning of August 16, 2009 at 3 a.m.
The Jud...
DATE: Sep 02, 2009
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The Progressive Labour Party has some reason to be pleased that Michael Weeks was re-elected with a great deal of ease – and increased his party's share of the vote in Thursday's Pembroke East Central by-election.
Given that Mr. Weeks, a relative pol...
DATE: Aug 31, 2009
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In the quiet of a Capitol elevator, one of Edward M. Kennedy's fellow senators asked whether the Massachusetts senator had plans for a family Thanksgiving away from the nation's capital. No, he said shaking his head in reply, and mentioned something ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2009
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The third party
August 10, 2009
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Dr. Brown got my dandruff up. I was hoping not to write you for a while. I found that Bermuda does have three political parties. UBP the opposition, PLP the governing party and Dr. Brown the dictator party. W...
DATE: Aug 29, 2009
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Unfair attack on school
August 19, 2009
Dear Sir,
My letter is in response to "A lack of diplomacy" today. I was happy to read your letters as I had not got around to putting one in myself! Well done and well said.
Yes, Mr. Slayton truly was out of ...
DATE: Aug 25, 2009
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