Every now and then, it is good to give out praise where it is due. Here goes:Last week, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Senator Kim Wilson was criticised in this space for saying she would not be paying a parking ticket as she believed that she was exempt.On Friday, Sen Wilson paid the ticket and she deserves credit for doing so. Less intelligent Ministers might have stuck to their guns and tried to brazen it out. But Sen Wilson might well have been following one of the late Dr. John Stubbs' favourite sayings: “When you're in a hole, stop digging.”For that at least, Sen Wilson deserves credit. She might have erred in the first place, but at least she saw she was wrong, or at least on a losing wicket and she did a sensible thing. On that basis, she will have gone up in the estimation of the public.While giving out praise, the Bermudians and Bermuda residents who have continued to work in Haiti and helped that country rebuild from last year's earthquake deserve shovel loads.It is not difficult to give money and make donations when the tragic scenes of a natural disaster are on the TV screens, newspaper and Internet home pages. It is not so easy to keep working and helping when the media have left for the next crisis, and the challenges are more complex and intracatable.But that is what the Cornerstone Foundation, Wesly Guiteau, Philip Rego and others have done and are doing and they deserve praise for it even though they are the last people who would seek it (and that's the point).Ernest Signor, who has put out books for children on the Bible, also deserves credit for helping our young people at a time when they really need it.That's not to say that all children are in trouble. They can't be when a four-year-old is giving and mature enough to give her long hair to Locks of Love, as this newspaper reports today.This newspaper also believes the administration of Saltus Grammar School did the right thing in taking firm action against the students who assaulted another pupil while administering so-called birthday bumps.While an appeal is apparently taking place, on the face of it, in making it clear that it will not tolerate bullying, the school did the right thing. Of course, it is easier for a private school to take these actions, but it would be a boon for Bermuda if all schools took as hard a line as Saltus on this issue.This newspaper hopes that Ted Williams the man with the golden voice takes up Bermuda's offer to visit the Island after praising it on NBC's the Today Show in the US. You can't buy publicity like that.And the Ministry of Tourism deserves credit for jumping on this golden marketing opportunity. It may seem an obvious thing to do, but Bermuda has not always taken advantage of these chances, so it's good that the Ministry did this time.