4077 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion"
“There is something dreadfully wrong with an education/socialisation process that leaves us ignorant of our past, strangers to our people, apes of our oppressors and creatures of habitual shallow thought and trivial values” — Wade Nobles, PhD in the ...
DATE: May 30, 2019
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The graduation caps have been thrown and summer bliss beckons. The SAT is nothing but a hazy, horrible memory, which is perhaps why the College Board chose this month to announce its latest tweak to the “test from hell”.
Last week, the board revealed...
DATE: May 27, 2019
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Democracy is an ideal that is not easily achievable. Unfortunately, too many people think we have achieved it already, simply because we are allowed to vote.
The right to vote is only one principle and even there the right is not exercised fully. Th...
DATE: May 27, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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Khalid Wasi
Dear Sir,
I refer to the countervailing opinions on pages 4 and 5 of your newspaper of May 19, 2019. Each article expresses the interpretation of “facts” as perceived by the respective writer. This interpretation is influenced inevitably by the life ...
DATE: May 22, 2019
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Letters to the Editor
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“The next Progressive Labour Party government will focus its efforts on attacking Bermuda’s cost-of-living problem. Our policies must reduce the cost of living across all areas, including healthcare, housing, food and electricity, to ensure that Berm...
DATE: May 22, 2019
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Vic Ball
This is the last in an eight-part series that takes an incisive look at the Bermuda economy, historically from our humble beginnings to the 21st century and the challenges faced by the Progressive Labour Party government
Of the 65,000 people living ...
DATE: May 21, 2019
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Dear Sir,
Approximately 80 per cent of black children in Bermuda attend public school. To most, public education in Bermuda equals “the education of black children in Bermuda”.
Discussions about education in Bermuda have become fodder for those perso...
DATE: May 20, 2019
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Letters to the Editor
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Cheryl-Ann Griffin. Remember her? The Shelly Bay resident who was central to the protests in her neighbourhood that led first to the withdrawal of Tom Steinhoff’s development plans at Shelly Bay Beach and then to the Bermuda Tourism Authority’s very ...
DATE: May 20, 2019
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RG: In our Opinion
“Gratitude is a must” — Koffee
Jamaican reggae artist Koffee has a global hit song, Toast, that speaks to the need for us, as human beings, to be grateful for everything that we have in life. Today, I would like to give thanks for several thi...
DATE: May 17, 2019
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Christopher Famous
Hilda Aitken was one of the first two women elected to serve in the House of Assembly.
She and Edna Watson earned their place in history when they broke through three centuries of all-male control of the House to win seats in the 1948 General Electio...
DATE: May 16, 2019
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