I believe what I belive from personal experience with a family member, as stated.  The only medical advice I will ever take from this person would be what kind of asprin I should take.

As to this:  "Please do some research before you speak, legal work does not always mean insurance, reinsurance or investment work, it is much broader than that.  Come on Ace, I had you pegged as being better than that."

I should introduce you to one of the advisors I work with.  He is a lawyer by trade but one of the best accountants I know.  He works in the rock & roll business.  Nothing to do with insurance or anything you are assuming ....and he'd have a pile of choice words for you about Carribean lawyers.  He just sent one local Bermudian lawyer an email that made my nose hair curl, basically telling him to go back to law school.

I'm dealing with reality here...yet you keep talking about perceptions.

Now, I'm leaving the office now for home.   It is almost 2.00am

Nighty night.

Meanwhile, back in Bermuda, the hapless Horton is shouted down by parents over his plans for Whitney.

From a legal perspective, take a look at where many of the top attorneys who have practice in Bermuda are from. People like the late Richard Hector QC (?), Archie Warner, etc. I will conceed that they may not all have gone to UWI.

There are many Privy Councilors from the Caribbean,, one of them is Hon. Perry Christie the immediate former Prime Minister of the Bahamas. Additionally, there is only one place outside of the U.K. where the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has set and that is right here in the Bahamas in December 2006. If that is not a sign of respect for the legal profession in the Bahamas than I do not know what is. Not even the GREAT Bermuda market has been able to secure such an event.

Additionally take a look at the number of QCs that hail from the Caribbean.

I told you above just because it is Caribbean and not Bermudian does not mean it is inferior, but that is not surprising based on what many in Bermuda would have you believe what the Caribbean is.

Please do some research before you speak, legal work does not always mean insurance, reinsurance or investment work, it is much broader than that.  Come on Ace, I had you pegged as being better than that.

Actually I chose Acadia. When I was at Bermuda College I had never realy heard of UWI.
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Guilden,

I don't think anyone is debating whether or not there are brilliant minds and talents that originate from the Caribbean.  I think it is more of the freedom of choice where there scholarship monies should be spent.  If they want to go to a Canadian/US/UK University and qualify a Government sholarship will they be forced to give it up because of they don't want to go to UWI?  The relationship between Canadian Universities and Bermudian graduates has been a long and fruitful one.  As a 26 year old I have seen many of my Bermudian peers succeed due to the training and eduaction received from these Universities.

PS: I did some research on the aforementioned Perry Christie and it appears that he is actually a graduate of teh University of Birmingham.  Sorry, but really don't see how that supports your argument of the credentials of UWI.   

Guliden,

I merely gave you one example that sprang to mind because the email was only a few days old.  Also, this guy to whom I refer now lives in the Carribean himself and his general impression of the lawyers there...and yes, many in Bermuda too, is that they are useless.

I have many other examples, but frankly I'm not going to waste time spelling out each and every one.  It would be pointless.  Just like Christian slogans on people's cars, you will defend against any perceived *threat* ad naeusum and we will be going around and around....again.

I do like the way you make a sweeping generalisation to back up your argument that I am making a sweeping generalisation though...really builds your case.

Before I tick off all my lawyer friends in Bermuda, I should point out that this is my client's perception, not mine.

His definition of *useless* is pretty broad.  In this particular case it wasn't that the documents produced weren't accurate or well prepared, it was that it took far too long and the fee was far too high.

Not having a document when it is urgently required, no matter how brilliant it may end up to be, is useless (for example).

 I would have no problem attending the University Of White Idiots.............

 You guys get too serious. Thas why I stayed away from this thread. It's all relative and does come out in the 'wash'.

Gotta run....The UWI wants a sample of my brain. The electrodes are similar and off by .5 of that of Albert Frankenstien.....

 

As I queried before is it right that the Govenment can issue scholarships but with a clause that the student must attend a certain insitution?  

What happens if the individual is of the lower class in Bermuda and has displayed their intellectual abilities enough to be granted a scholarship from the BDA Govt, but decides that another insitution in another jurisdiction best suits the educational field they are looking to pursue?  

Is their scholarship going to be revoked because they don't see the UWI fit (for whatever reason) for their specific educational interests?  So then is this individual denied the chance to further their education due to the fact that they don't see the Government sponsored/mandated institution as being in their best interests, as well as their families financial state, in the field of study, and thus lost through the "cracks."

Why are we (taxpayers) being forced to donate money to another jurisdiction for the betterment of their education system when ours remains in shambles?  This is especially concerning since there is no guarantee that there will be a return on this so called investment.  But hey our dollars just sponsored inncer city youths in LA through a Poker tournament, when there are Bermudians continuing to live inpoverty in their own country.

sand, and as CO pointed out, UWI ranks higher than some canadian colleges...