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LOL seriously I get you that hot under the collar touch yourself and release girl.

Well said. Very complex to understand. The answer is to increase awareness about the true causes, envision a future we desire, then how to get there. Start with self.

Well done.

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In regards to your last comment does the truth hurt? You always on here sucking up to Dunkley. Must be true. Raunchy? You tell me. That’s more your sort of thing. http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGGE_enBM422&q=tossed+salad&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1366&bih=643

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LOL by the way Nicole you have a raunchy mind wonder what you’ve tried to due to your ex’s

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And LOL (Original) Kick rocks. Your opinion is invalid as well.

It’s cheaper and easier to import skilled tradesmen than it is to take on an apprentice who may or may not work out. Once upon a time we had a trade school that was able to produce tradesmen of a good standard. Now we have employers in the position of having to fund an apprentice going overseas to complete their apprenticeship.

I’m not trying to take anything away from what Alton built. She was a beautiful little boat that looked solid and also looked to ride pretty well. Does that mean that you can drop him in the Bertram boatyard and he will be able to slot right in to a crew as a builder? Not yet.

This is all just picking at details. The most important issue I tried to highlight is a lack of self belief among our youth. How many students leave middle school thinking that they can be a master tradesman, lawyer, underwriter or accountant? How many 16 year olds think the same? We need to fix that as soon as possible. Without ambition our youth have no chance of making anything of their lives.

We also need to look at the lack of ambition in the workforce. Finishing university or high school does not mean that you have finished your education. As a whole we seem unconcerned with bettering ourselves. But that is a whole other issue to look at.

However , we would probably also find that there are more whites who are multiple property owners than blacks .

But ultimately , there are a greater number of black homeowners .

All the killing was done by wannabe local Black Panthers, with all white victims.

And further to your idiotickly inaccurate posting..’we are all responsible for in some way … blah blah ..’

NO WE ARE NOT …We are affected by it , but that’s completely different than being responsible for it .

Try to be more literate in future .

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Political parties are in it to win it. If they slap an idea out there what is to stop the PLP who has the majority vote in the house deny it and then come back months later(just enough time for us to forget) with a slightly modified motion (so they can take the credit) and keep winning elections. Yes I hear you all on that should not matter the idea in principle was taken but again they are in it to win it. Politics is just a game that the successful (i.e. rich) have imposed on us to get richer and maintain control over us.

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This idea may help grow as a community:

As far as getting to know each other the after school program could maybe start playing inter after school sports or collective competitions where they trade kids with other after school programs to learn to work together in a positive way.

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LOL just want the best for my country and what we have now is not it.

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LOL I for one do not like giving back my rights. Dunkley purposed a three strikes approach and was labeled a neo fascist but with that approach we would retain our rights. Guess some people I think were scared that their life style would indeed lead them to jail though and they said the UBP use scare tactics lolololol.

Children and teenagers spend 7-hours a day in a learning environment 5-days a work in classrooms that are manned by 1 teacher. You cannot expect a child not to absorb/observe/imitate some of the behaviors exhibited by their peers when they are open to it every day.

Children are sponges! Simple! And furthermore, I should also re-iterate that the group I partnered with is one of few groups who wanted to make a difference in the community and met with BLACK males who were labeled by the SCHOOL as at risk teens, some of which were soon-to-be expelled and did not have the parental support b/c either their parents were DECEASED or out of the picture for one reason or another! Much of the so-called parental responsibility is then redirected towards teachers and guidance counselors.

I’ve never once heard of Sen. Michael Dunkley coming up with a PRO-ACTIVE plan to target that sector or group. PLANS FOR ALL is SIMPLE!!!

I accept and respect your views but will offer the following rebuttal in light of “devil’s advocate” comments that I posted:
1) Both schools whether CedarBridge or Berkeley do to a certain extent institutionalize the social behavior of many young male and females in our small island. It is a learned behavior whether it comes from home or in the school. As a matter of fact 95% of societal behavior stemming from lack of parental guidance only becomes perpetuated when students are coupled with members of similar backgrounds in the same environment. I have never labeled either school as a prison. Clearly the term institution needs to be defined.
2) Has it not occurred to either of you that many of the crime that occurs in Bermuda albeit the lack of parental guidance at home also exists in schools?? And that is ALL schools, but for those parents who cannot afford to send their students to private institutions or ship them out of the island what recourse or choices do they have when their children still continue to adapt to the social ills and behavior learned in school. AND FOR THE RECORD THE GANG CULTURE ALSO EXISTS IN SCHOOL. Here’s an example: I partnered with a group who entered Berkeley Institute to meet with an group of BLACK MALES from different areas of the island west side, east side, town by no division of the moderators themselves, these individuals ironically sat in different locations and after engaging in healthy discussions, one of them concluded how ironic they found that west side guys had sat at the front, town guys sat at the back and the latter?? So, excuse me for labeling one school and not the next!!! The point that I made and standby is that the FUNGI effect perpetuates in such environments. As for Dame Jennifer Smith and the board, I’ll leave that topic alone. WHAT LOGICAL EXPLANATION OR ANSWER COULD EITHER PARTY OFFER WHEN THEY DECIDED TO BUILD CEDARBRIDGE OR THE “NEW” BERKELEY? Some of us are still waiting for a REAL ANSWER? Both parties have been slow…
3) The Middleton Case—has relevancy in the fact that history has a way of repeating itself. That if anything has been an explosive case to which no concrete answers have been given regarding the handling of the case and, how charges have been inappropriately applied to the wrong individuals despite DNA evidence and countless monies exhausted by the Middletons and the ANTIQUATED LAWS THAT HAVE YET TO BE AMENDED, some of which have been to allow the police to do more in their capacity ie., detain a suspect for longer than 24 – 48 hours with regard to gun related matters. The point is the same issues that stemmed then, are SOME OF the same issues we face now. AND FOR THE RECORD THIS IS NOT A BLACK OR WHITE ISSUE OR RACE, my point was that neither party has corrected the issue of planning THEN or NOW. WHERE ARE THOSE ANSWERS????
4) I will agree that yes, violence has increased tremendously over the past 13 years, however, lest we not forget that this isn’t a problem that BOTH parties did not know how to exist. It was just a matter of when it happens, or the laissez-faire attitude by both parties and infantile behavior as I quoted the first time is not what the island needs in terms of a solution. I further suggested that this of all issues that Bermuda faces is an issue where BOTH or ALL PARTIES need to partner.
AND ABOVE ALL THAT WAS WRITTEN MY PRIMARY POINT WAS PERHAPS THAT WHILST SEN. DUNKLEY USES THE COLLECTIVE TERM “WE” TO ADDRESS THE PLP IN RESPONSE OF A PLAN, I CHALLENGE SEN. DUNKLEY OR WHOMEVER TO COME FORTH WITH A PLAN AS WELL.

So you basically took my “childish” comment and substituted ‘americans’ for bermudians. Welcome to childhood! And thanks for pointing out that the financial situation is GLOBAL and not a PLP phenomenon, much applause to you for that.
If you’re too myopic to accept that Bermudian homeowners (paid and clear) are charging outrageous unfair prices for rent to locals and that banks and realtors have a HUGE part to play in that then you are as moronic as I thought. If you also cannot see the concrete correlation and linear from between rise in cost of living-poverty-desperation and despair and rise in crime then you are just not worth my time. People like you and senator Dunkey are certainly not worth anyone’s righteous indignation for that matter! Are you kidding? You just aren’t to be taken that seriously.