4155 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion"
September 21, 2005
Dear Sir,
This letter is directed to Premier Alex Scott
I don't quite know where to start this letter to you, so I guess I will start with yesterday. After listening to you on the radio news whilst driving home from work and then a...
DATE: Sep 30, 2005
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Protect our heritage
September 15, 2005
Dear Sir,
The recent article by Dr. Harris in the Mid Ocean News titled ?Washing away our Heritage? in which he claims that ?Since the early 1950?s a man-made underwater tsunami has swept through the historic s...
DATE: Sep 27, 2005
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As ?Limey in Bermuda? Phillip Wells points out, the Bermuda Independence Commission?s report wasn?t all bad.
It spent some time dealing with the issue of race, as did the United Nations Decolonisation Committee in its report on its visits to Bermuda....
DATE: Sep 22, 2005
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It has been ten years since I have been out of office as Premier of Bermuda. The Progressive Labour Party, coming to power seven years ago as a new and untested Government gave me cause to be restrained in my comments. I waited because I wanted to gi...
DATE: Sep 21, 2005
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A warning about spending
September 1, 2005
Dear Sir,
As I look at today?s headlines, ?Driven Out by Wedco? somewhat late in the day, I cannot help but think about Yogi Berra?s famous statement ?deja vu all over again?. I am reminded of two things. Th...
DATE: Sep 19, 2005
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Halt the ?foreign? gardens
September 14, 2005
Dear Sir,
Two years after Hurricane Fabian, I congratulate the Management and Staff of the Botanical Gardens in Paget for the way in which they have turned the devastation of the hurricane into an opportu...
DATE: Sep 16, 2005
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Sen. E.T. (Bob) Richards' column in yesterday's warns that Bermuda's black middle class is shrinking and he says the facts confirm there is a growing gap between rich and poor.
Sen. Richards draws his conclusions from last year's CURE report, which s...
DATE: Sep 15, 2005
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The hallmark of every first world, or developed country, the golden thread that runs through all of them, is a large and thriving middle class. In Bermuda one of the ways we are going to grow this economic pie of ours and expand the middle class is t...
DATE: Sep 14, 2005
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Do the right thing
August 31, 2005
Dear Sir,
In an attempt to turn a negative into a positive, will the person removing the giant Ethiopian/Lion of Judah standard (flag) that was flying above my concession stand opposite the entrance to Horseshoe Bay...
DATE: Sep 12, 2005
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Public schools re-opened yesterday, braving high winds from Hurricane Nate to get classes underway.
There's some important symbolism in that. It would have been easy to place an over-abundance of caution over the importance of education.
Instead, adm...
DATE: Sep 09, 2005
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