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In July 2017, the Progressive Labour Party released its General Election platform.
In it, it pledged to “reform public education by phasing out middle schools and introducing signature schools at the secondary level, which focus on the learning style...
DATE: Dec 23, 2020
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Editorials
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RG: In our Opinion
Dear Sir,
It was very disconcerting to read the headline in today’s paper — “Nine primary schools face axe” (December 21, 2020). I would urge all parents and potential parents to make their voices heard and take action against the insanity being push...
DATE: Dec 23, 2020
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Letters to the Editor
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Letters to the Editor
It is with great sadness that the Bermuda Football Coaches Association has received the news of the passing of French coaching legend Gérard Houllier.
The former Liverpool manager visited the island in March 2018 as part of a series of functions org...
DATE: Dec 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Letters to the Editor
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Letters to the Editor
My earliest months of life were spent in a cotton sack, dragged along by my parents as they picked cotton in the fields of the large East Texas plantation where they toiled as sharecroppers in the 1940s. I learnt from them that my life would continue...
DATE: Nov 26, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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We hear the public are crying out, “Where is the beef?” They have heard the Throne Speech, seen the Auditor-General's report; all they need now is to reconcile the two. Before going any farther, while it's obvious the country needs more money circula...
DATE: Nov 19, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families welcomes the Government’s 2020 Throne Speech.
From early in the speech and throughout, the Government makes a clear commitment to social priorities.
In 2014, the IAC conducted a comprehensive Asse...
DATE: Nov 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nicola Paugh
“We regret to announce the death of the Bermuda Tourism Authority in its seventh year of existence”
You get the idea. The Government has announced that former national security minister and sitting Devonshire MP Wayne Caines will also become t...
DATE: Nov 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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October 2020 saw the start of the next phase of the Ministry of Education’s school transformation process, and the consultative phase of the Progressive Labour Party's promise to the people of Bermuda is well under way.
That promise is to enact educa...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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In 1919, a compassionate and beautiful Act of Parliament was passed in Britain for all Commonwealth soldiers returning from the First World War.
In Bermuda, it guaranteed free hospital treatment for life at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, pensions...
DATE: Nov 10, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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The United States has experienced two periods of Reconstruction – in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and during the 1950s and 1960s. During these two eras, the nation attempted to confront a history of racial injustice and exploitation, corr...
DATE: Oct 29, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
David A. Love