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How to raise standards
August 11
This is a letter sent to Philip Butterfield, chairman of the Interim Executive Board, set up to implement recommendations of the Hopkins report into education in Bermuda,
Dear Sir,
Please permit me to have your attent...
DATE: Aug 21, 2007
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The following are excerpts from editorials from around the world which may be of interest to Royal Gazette readers.
The (Nashville) Tennessean, on maintenance of infrastructure:
One of the greatest tragedies about the catastrophic bridge collapse in ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2007
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WASHINGTON — The next time you hear confident assurances from the White House and its supporters that the "surge" of US troops in Iraq is working and that something called "victory" is now within sight, remember the Yazidis.
The who? Before Tuesday, ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2007
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I'm voting for Charley
August 16, 2007
Dear Sir,
I had a visit tonight from Charley Swan who is standing as a candidate for the United Bermuda Party up here in Southampton. If Charley is the kind of candidate — black, white or otherwise — that the UB...
DATE: Aug 17, 2007
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A note of thanks
July 31, 2007
Dear Sir,
I would like to thank a few people for helping my son Scott and his friend/co-pilot Jason North after their accident during the Around the Island powerboat race on Sunday July 29.
"Thank you" to the people th...
DATE: Aug 16, 2007
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Women have always cared for their family members, so why is the caring for dependent seniors the focus of so much attention, and why is it so important in 2007? The answer lies in the complex nature of our ageing population.
The Department of Statist...
DATE: Aug 15, 2007
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BOSTON — It's worth remembering that the blogosphere is still so new it baffles spell check. For that matter, if I type "blogger" on my screen, my retro software offers alternatives like "loggers," "floggers" and "boggler".
It "boggles" my mind to re...
DATE: Aug 15, 2007
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Getting what we deserve
August 14, 2007
Dear Sir
Once again we have the seemingly parrot-like phrases relating to the unwillingness and refusal of this so-called PLP Government to communicate with the media and, virtually by definition, with the peop...
DATE: Aug 15, 2007
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WASHINGTON — Several times a month, a woman calls my office in the middle of the night and leaves long voice-mail messages about how she's the target of a vast, sinister conspiracy. I won't give her name — obviously, she suffers from mental illness.
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DATE: Aug 14, 2007
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Thank you to 'Alvin'
August 8, 2007
Dear Sir,
While in Hamilton with my daughter on July 26, my mother called me at work to say that my daughter had lost her bag. She mentioned that they had back tracked to look for it to no avail. We thought that th...
DATE: Aug 14, 2007
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