4031 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion"
It is a story of corruption that will stay secret, politicians who will need fewer votes to win, even dangerous communicable diseases that will spread faster as our best scientists struggle to fight them.
The story is the slow and painful demise of l...
DATE: Mar 07, 2019
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The Progressive Labour Party, via the Minister of Finance, has expressed the belief that the national Budget must reflect not just the times in which we live, but also our core values: protecting the vulnerable, expanding opportunity, employing the u...
DATE: Mar 05, 2019
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Remember what it was like when you landed your first “real” job?
The light-footed way you glided through the lobby, the thrill you felt when you opened your first box of business cards, the nervousness of recording your voice message? You were going...
DATE: Mar 05, 2019
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Robin Trimingham
Born into a prominent family, Wenona Robinson was an elocutionist who took her training in public speaking on stage and into the classroom.
She was also a Girl Guide leader and a founding member and long-time treasurer of the Sunshine League, the chi...
DATE: Mar 05, 2019
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The Brexit circus and the unpopularity of President Donald Trump are causing apprehension about the future of the Anglosphere, the cultural, intellectual and political influence of the core English-speaking nations: Britain and the US
As a non-native...
DATE: Mar 04, 2019
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Most critiques of online activity and social media are neither rigorous nor helpful — by which I mean, they do not adequately explain why spending so much time online might be problematic and, if it is, what to do about it. Allow me to offer a tentat...
DATE: Feb 27, 2019
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There is reason to celebrate the first Budget surplus in many many years, but the way in which that surplus was achieved sullies things.
An accounting sleight of hand shuffled the “mandatory” sinking fund contribution to capital spending thereby avoi...
DATE: Feb 23, 2019
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A 90-year old widow with a developmentally disabled adult child struggles with the everyday cost of living while trying to make sense of the proposed government budget tax and social service increases. This is a hypothetical composite case based on r...
DATE: Feb 16, 2019
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Martha Harris Myron
In conjunction with Bermudabiographies.bm, The Royal Gazette is featuring a series on prominent people who have made a contribution to Bermuda in all spheres. Bermudabiographies.bm was created by veteran journalist Meredith Ebbin.
Dame Lois Browne-E...
DATE: Feb 14, 2019
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“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
In a world where information is at our fingertips, we battle against false claims nearly as much as we work to educate ourselves.
I’m not — nor do I claim to...
DATE: Feb 13, 2019
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