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It is with great sadness that the Bermuda Football Coaches Association has received the news of the passing of French coaching legend Gérard Houllier.
The former Liverpool manager visited the island in March 2018 as part of a series of functions org...
DATE: Dec 15, 2020
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Dear Sir,
According to the police, the problem on our roads is our mindset needs to change. First, to change our mindset, we have to find out how it was created.
All the education in the world is not going to affect a thing. When road users get on t...
DATE: Oct 28, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Today, like so many other days, I pick up the paper and the worst horror jumps out at me. Once again a man has this time threatened a women — threatened to kill her, that is.
This time, he has not beat her. This time, he hasn't introduced ...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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Dear Sir,
As a former expatriate resident in Bermuda, I do not have a vote in the upcoming election, and neither would I wish to influence any Bermuda voters.
I do, however, have a very strong liking and loyalty towards Bermuda and Bermudians. So I w...
DATE: Sep 28, 2020
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Dear Sir,
The following is a letter sent to the Governor, the Premier and the Opposition leader, together with my MP, Wayne Caines.
I am yet to hear back from the latter three, and so this is redirected towards them with edits from the original.
I wr...
DATE: Sep 03, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Many may know that Thomas Sowell is a highly respected American economist and social theorist who is a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
He has just turned 90 and has written books and essays on the topics of educ...
DATE: Aug 08, 2020
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Dear Sir,
I am writing to you as I am concerned about the way my commencement speech to the Berkeley Graduating Class of 2020 was summarised in The Royal Gazette on June 30, 2020. I am giving you a shout as a courtesy, as I will now have to take ste...
DATE: Jul 02, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Recently it was announced by the British Government that Bermuda’s first woman and first black governor will take over the job this year. Rena Lalgie, the director of Britain’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation at the Treasury, w...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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The dentist Ronda James wrote an excellent Letter to the Editor entitled “Health plan grandstanding” published on Tuesday, which, among other things, made a connection between the coronavirus crisis and the proposed healthcare reforms advoc...
DATE: Apr 16, 2020
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Dear Sir,
Let me introduce you to Bermuda’s new status quo — our public education.
For context, I refer you to the year 2013, when our public schools’ mathematics and science results had a very poor IGCSE showing, with only 19 per cent of students g...
DATE: Apr 01, 2020
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