1052 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion Writer"
Wassup Bermuda! I hit on a hot topic last week tourism which was addressed by another writer. Last week we were looking at how standards have dropped and we allow young people to do whatever the heck they want. We also looked at how some of them beha...
DATE: Jan 13, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
Education reform remains one of our most significant challenges. It tends not to produce stark headlines nor is it ever the topic of sustained debate in any public arena.
Yet major reforms are necessary and the Ministry of Education has set about mak...
DATE: Jan 11, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Walton Brown
As the new year unfolds with heightened anxiety and anticipation over a general election and what it could mean for Bermuda’s future, there remains an undercurrent of community concern that political game-playing will override the needs of the Bermud...
DATE: Jan 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Happy New Year Bermuda.
I will stay on the theme of our young people because each week I see or hear something that shocks me even more than what happened the week before.
This time I’m going to look at our young people’s lack of respect for authori...
DATE: Jan 06, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) To: The Upper Ones
From: The Strategy Committee,
Re: The Alarming Behavior of College Students
The committee has been reconvened in haste to respond to a disturbing new trend: the uprisings by students on elite college campuses....
DATE: Jan 03, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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Happy New Year Bermuda!
Last week we looked at the issue of work ethic in the younger generation something that as a generation they are seriously lacking. There has been much discussion about workforce development of the Bermuda workforce and the n...
DATE: Dec 30, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
As we make preparations to welcome in a New Year, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the Education Officers, Principals, Teachers, support staff in the public education system and the President, faculty and staff of the Bermuda College. ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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I urge any Bermudian who is concerned about crime to read the Joint Select Committee report on the causes of violent crime and gun violence.
It is a thoughtful, compassionate study conducted in the midst of a crime crisis that has shaken the foundati...
DATE: Dec 17, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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“Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.”
- William E Simon (former secretary of Treasury in the US)
A country...
DATE: Dec 13, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
Tax news specific to Bermudian residents with United States passports, i.e. dual citizens of the US/other countries and US citizens living abroad, who for various reasons such as ignorance of US tax law, or misunderstanding of their personal tax situ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
