4157 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion"
We are most fortunate
January 27, 2003
Dear Sir,
The Council Partners Charitable Trust is a well-managed fund raising organisation which asks for accountability from the programme that it helps to fund. The Council Partners needs to show the donors h...
DATE: Jan 30, 2003
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If anyone needed proof that reading news stories is often a lousy means of understanding complex issues, the affirmative action cases now in front of the US Supreme Court provide it in abundance.
The court has agreed to hear argument on April 1 in su...
DATE: Jan 27, 2003
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The work was piling up. Deadlines came and went and the assignments still were not finished. The mind was overwhelmed and frustration and escape became the only real options for a man who could no longer "cut it" or be relied on to do his part. The o...
DATE: Jan 17, 2003
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January 8, 2003
The following was sent to The Hon. Terry Lister, Minister of Home Affairs and copied to The Royal Gazette.
Dear Mr. Lister:
Re: Dr. Jonathan Murray
We refer to the recent situation concerning Dr. Jonathan Murray and wish to place on r...
DATE: Jan 15, 2003
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Silence is sickening
January 4, 2003
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So some of the do-gooders in our society are appalled at the suggestion of a curfew as a means of addressing the anti-social behaviour of our youth. The reason that they are so against it ? It doesn't ad...
DATE: Jan 11, 2003
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During the last year, Yasser Arafat has left his Ramallah compound only once, for a brief tour of the West Bank in May.
Only a single, tan three-storey office building remains standing in the compound. Sandbags flank its front door. Every window is b...
DATE: Jan 06, 2003
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It saddens me to see Fair Havens close but I have high hopes that the facility will soon re-open to serve some other good social purpose.
In any event, I think it is important to tell Bermudians why, I believe, the project did not succeed. And to tal...
DATE: Jan 03, 2003
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While I was researching an article about Turkey the other day, I came across a couple of pieces of Christmassy information that surprised me, and that might be appropriate on this date. First, believe it or not, Santa Claus came from there. He wasn't...
DATE: Dec 23, 2002
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On October 23, 2002, the front page of The Royal Gazette, the main daily Bermuda newspaper, proudly recorded that local gangsters had been foiled by the legendary efficiency of the Bermuda Police. Fifty-six boxes of eggs had been intercepted, alleged...
DATE: Dec 21, 2002
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Circuses are cruel
December 13, 2002
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I am appalled that the Government is to allow a circus with performing animals to visit the Island. I assume it is the Government who must give a licence for such to perform.
Due to the nature of our Isl...
DATE: Dec 18, 2002
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