17 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion" author Rolfe Commissiong
Rolfe Commissiong evokes a Desert and Oasis analogy to guide voters away from party loyalties
DATE: Dec 10, 2024
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Rolfe Commissiong
Rolfe Commissiong frets that another opportunity for a learning experience on overrepresentation of Black Bermudians in the Civil Service has been squandered
DATE: May 07, 2024
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Rolfe Commissiong
Rolfe Commissiong is entirely unconvinced that David Burt’s PLP or Jarion Richardson’s OBA should be running the country
DATE: Nov 24, 2023
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Rolfe Commissiong
Rolfe Commissiong unpeels his opus for delivering long-sought-after racial equity
DATE: Jul 24, 2023
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Rolfe Commissiong
I read Khalid Wasi’s response to my op-ed entitled “Know your place” with interest and some bemusement. Typically, it contained once again his revisionist take on Bermuda’s mid to late 20th-century history for about the 500th time.
Khalid, please le...
DATE: Nov 18, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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Rolfe Commissiong
“The Treasury Department said officials from its Office of Tax Policy were ‛heartened by the positive reception to its proposals and the unprecedented progress being made towards establishing a global minimum tax’” —
Reuters
The fictions...
DATE: Jul 14, 2021
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Rolfe Commissiong
That white males earn 70 per cent more than black men in the category of personal income with respect to full-time employment of those aged 16 and above in the 2016 census should be pause for significant concern.
Similarly, the companion statistic t...
DATE: May 11, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Rolfe Commissiong
The following is a revised speech given at the PLP Annual Delegates Conference
Never in the annals of our modern political history in this country has a political party swept all before it in the manner that occurred on July 18, 2017.
It was a victo...
DATE: Nov 02, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Rolfe Commissiong
“When I came here a number of years ago, Bermuda was a place where someone with ambition and without a college education could get a job in the hotel industry or in the trades and earn a middle-class standard of living. Those days are over now.”
— Sh...
DATE: Jul 03, 2017
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Rolfe Commissiong
What was largely left unsaid during the recently concluded Presidential election campaign that saw the election of Donald J. Trump, was that trade treaties and their impact was not the whole picture when it came to the issue of the decline of well-pa...
DATE: Jan 10, 2017
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Rolfe Commissiong