1046 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion Writer"
There’s a non-trivial element of entertainment involved in the act — or art — of teaching. If you think back to your favourite teachers over the years, whether from school or university, I would wager that they found a way to convey their own interes...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Katie Davis
Former One Bermuda Alliance senator Vic Ball is at it again. This time, he penned an opinion saying that we live in a “dictatorship”.
Really?
Just because you don’t win, Mr Ball, doesn’t mean that we live in a dictatorship.
Fair-minded people can ha...
DATE: Jun 04, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Owen Darrell
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”
—Turkish Proverb
It is very rare that I would write a follow-up t...
DATE: Jun 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Vic Ball
Vaxism
I think we are witnessing a blue eyes, brown eyes experiment that no one could have predicted.
The Oprah Show was not one of my favourites, but there were two episodes that are etched in my memory. The “you get a car” happy episode wh...
DATE: May 31, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Malcolm Raynor
Inflation. We all know it when we see it. Prices rise, gas stations have lines. Graphs point upward. Eyebrows lift. Eyeballs roll. From Mary Tyler Moore gently tossing a package of meat into her shopping cart in the opening credits of her 1970s sitco...
DATE: May 27, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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On April 15, Indianapolis police arrived at the FedEx ground facility where a former employee shot and killed eight people, and wounded several others. About 90 per cent of the workers at the FedEx warehouse are members of the local Sikh community, a...
DATE: May 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
Bermuda has turned into a violent country. Statistically, that is what our homicide numbers are portraying us as. Our murder rate per capita is higher than Canada, Britain, and most countries in Europe.
Our ten-year average trend, dating back to 201...
DATE: May 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Malcolm Raynor
The period of the 1940s through to the early 1960s saw tremendous movements in Africa inspired by many new activists such as Kwame Nkrumah, of Ghana, Patrice Lamumba, of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Jomo Kenyatta, of Kenya, to name a few.
Th...
DATE: May 12, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
On any given day, those who operate food shelters and deliver to the needy are constantly asked the question, "When will things get back to normal?”
I assist at a food shelter, so I hear your questions and concerns first-hand.
Thousands of Bermudian...
DATE: May 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Michael Weeks
The Royal Naval Hospital in Ireland Island South, Bermuda, was built in 1818 for the sick and wounded seamen and marines of Her Majesty’s Ships. It was also used for the artisans employed on Ireland Island. It was designed with four wards, each holdi...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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