4230 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion"
Derek Smith last week raised several important issues regarding young Bermudians' education and career planning.
Some students choose degrees based on their universities' course curricula without considering whether they will be able to pursue a care...
DATE: Apr 21, 2005
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‘Universal significance'
April 15, 2005
Dear Sir,
‘Peace and Love Patch Adams' letter to the Editor (March 31) suggests that CURE's annual March 21st Commemoration Ceremony is a memorial for the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and cites many other examp...
DATE: Apr 20, 2005
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Solve rental problem
April 8, 2005
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It is so apparent to me, as I am sure it is to many of my fellow Bermudians, that there is a real housing crisis in Bermuda. Not a crisis of home ownership, but a crisis of finding real and affordable hous...
DATE: Apr 18, 2005
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April 2, 2005
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R. Hamill and other contributors seem to have missed the fundamental driver in the quest for Independence. Bermuda's quest is about democracy in its purest sense: fairness and equity with respect to power. When the American co...
DATE: Apr 12, 2005
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WASHINGTON ? The National Urban League issued its annual State of Black America report last week, and you won't be surprised to learn that, once again, the league is worried about the gap in well-being between blacks and whites.
There is a small refi...
DATE: Apr 12, 2005
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April 2, 2005
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While not wishing to get into the rights and wrongs of the Melanie Wedgwood case involving the tragic death of young Tyaisha Cox, I wish to offer the following suggestions which may, just may, prevent any recurrence of that tr...
DATE: Apr 11, 2005
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He earned our respect
April 4, 2005
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I am writing to you regarding the story on Major Herman Eve's retirement from the Regiment. I am now 48 years old, but when I was 16 I joined Junior Leaders, the cadet corps for the Bermuda Regiment. Sgt....
DATE: Apr 07, 2005
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Just serving time
March 28, 2005
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I am writing to ask why we still view (male only) conscription as an acceptable practice.
I see nothing wrong with Bermuda keeping its Regiment, but forced involvement through conscription is unethical and s...
DATE: Apr 03, 2005
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A story in Wednesday?s about the Household Expenditure Survey goes a long way towards explaining why people are feeling stressed about the costs of life in Bermuda. Princes have really increased since 2000 when the last Survey was completed.
And it a...
DATE: Apr 01, 2005
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March 30, 2005
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In the local media the other day there was a picture of a four-door hatchback car, a Toyota RAV4, starting at $42,000. Seeing these sell for $18,750 on the Internet in the US, this seemed a misprint until seeing other prices ...
DATE: Apr 01, 2005
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