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"TV station apologises for story"

A threat of legal action from the governing party drew a hasty response from DeFontes Broadcasting yesterday. Premier Paula Cox demanded a retraction of a report on VSB News which linked her party to an opinion piece entitled Electoral Strategy of R...
Dec 06, 2012
Letters to the Editor

"OBA is a new entity"

December 4, 2012 Dear Sir, The topic of this “secret document” that involved the United Bermuda Party purposefully splitting and forming the Bermuda Democratic Alliance to then merge as the One Bermuda Alliance is now a growing topic leading up to th...
Dec 06, 2012
Education

"Implement reforms ‘as a matter of urgency’"

Ever since the Hopkins Report, Government has been hounded for taking too long to implement it. For the OBA, extra urgency comes from the 2012 Labour Force Survey. Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons said one-third unemployment among job-seekers ...
Dec 06, 2012
Politics

"Swan: I’m staying Independent"

Independent candidate Charlie Swan yesterday promised that he would remain an independent MP if reelected. The former UBP member stated: “Following this election as an Independent candidate, I will remain an Independent candidate throughout the durat...
Dec 06, 2012
Politics

"PLP candidates feel heat from Pembroke supporters"

Progressive Labour Party candidates felt the heat from their own supporters last night as Bermuda's unemployment crisis took centre stage at a town-hall meeting. *Editor's Note: this story has been corrected to note that Michelle Wainwright is a gran...
Dec 06, 2012
Letters to the Editor

"OBA has new and fresh ideas"

December 4, 2012 Dear Sir, Will you please allow me to comment on the following. The UBP hired a consultant to advise them on the way forward after their electoral defeat in 2007. The consultant recommended that the UBP use “black surrogates” as a wa...
Dec 06, 2012
Education

"PLP: Re-professionalise teaching and learning"

If Government’s strategy for education stands on the shoulders of the 2007 Hopkins Report, so too does the Opposition’s criticism of the pace of reform. Five years ago, the review of Bermuda’s public education system by Professor David Hopkins pulled...
Dec 06, 2012
Education

"Education restructuring runs into series of hurdles"

Education in Bermuda is in a state of flux as the curricula of both private and public schools go global. The International Baccalaureate is growing in popularity, the UK’s GCSE exam system is set to change into an English Baccalaureate in the years ...
Dec 06, 2012
Education

"Better teachers = better exam results"

In the Royal Gazette’s continuing series on the major issues confronting the electorate, Jonathan Bell looks at education Just eight percent of students in the Island’s public schools received a C grade or above in GCSE maths. But the grades only te...
Dec 06, 2012
Politics

"PLP expected to release platform today"

With a rally in the east end, home to critical marginal constituencies, planned for this evening, and a late morning press conference led by Premier Paula Cox, the Progressive Labour Party is expected to release its election manifesto today. Premier...
Dec 06, 2012
Other

"The political jury room"

When the talking stops and the dust settles for a general election, the case goes to the political jury room which is that small cubicle where each eligible voter has the opportunity to render a verdict on who should be selected to lead Bermuda into ...
Dec 06, 2012
Opinion Writer

"A vision for Sandys North"

Anyone visiting relatives and or friends in Boaz Island and/or Ireland Island will quickly see that this is a community in decline. Boarded-up windows and doors are visible everywhere. Trees are growing out of the walls and what were once patios. Beh...
Dec 05, 2012
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