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Today, barring an election announcement, will mark Premier Dr. Ewart Brown's second throne Speech, but because he unseated Alex Scott just days before his first had to be delivered, he could be forgiven then for not promising much in the first one. I...

Figure was misleading October 31, 2007 Dear Sir, I would like to commend The Royal Gazette for bringing to the public's attention the current epidemic we are facing of an overpopulation of cats because people are not spaying and neutering their dome...

Bloomberg — It's nice to be wanted, especially when applying for college aid. As a National Merit finalist, Joelle Kaplan from East Cobb, Georgia, was heavily recruited as soon as her high test scores were received by colleges. When it was time to ma...

A deliberate ploy October 25 Dear Sir, I have finally figured it out. The reason that education is where it is today is because the PLP Government had every intention of putting it there and has every intention of keeping it there. Why? So that when ...

Doing the math October 22, 2007 Dear Sir, This is a letter to Education Minister Randy Horton which was copied to The Royal Gazette. Dear Sir, The following is an open letter which I have posted on my blog (www.21square.com) and copied to both The Ro...

We are going backwards October 22, 2007 Dear Sir, In 1950 under the South African apartheid regime, legislation was passed for the registration of the population. The Population Registration Act meant that all South Africans were to be classified in ...

On the face of it, the jump in graduation rates from Berkeley Institute and CedarBridge Academy is very good news. For the record, the 22 percentage point increase from a 58 percent graduation rate in 2006 to 80 percent in 2007 (not 30 percent as rep...

Is it okay to seek revenge? October 16, 2007 Dear Sir, I would like to share with you my interesting drive home yesterday from work. As I drove along the beautiful South Shore Road, I became excited, confused, depressed, confused again, had a revelat...

The Royal Gazette sent some questions to Community and Cultural Affairs Minister Wayne Perinchief about the proposed Workforce Equity Act. Here are his responses. How can business get more black Bermudians when there are 10,000 more jobs than people ...

Government's legal initiatives for narrowing the gap between white and black attainment in Bermuda are well intentioned, but poorly thought out. Premier Ewart Brown's "Goodwill Plus" initiative has probably been criticised more because he did such a...