This is an abridged version of a speech recently delivered by former One Bermuda Alliance Leader and long-standing MP John Barritt at the Annual Bishop’s Luncheon
One of my favourite sayings, a West...
“Spend more time remedying and you will spend less time regretting” Life's Little Instruction Calendar 2010.
My wishes for the New Year, Mr. Editor, will come as no surprise to anyone. They are the u...
“Do the right thing. It will gratify some and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain.
I know, I know, it's Christmas, Mr Editor. I will try to ease up, a bit, although it won't all be merry. Readers should k...
“An old error is always more popular than a new truth.” anonymous proverb.
You need look no further, Mr Editor, than Monday’s debate in the House for any better example of what’s wrong with the way ...
“Cheer up, the worst is yet to come” Philander Chase Johnson (Yes, a real person, an American journalist and humourist, now deceased).
There’s no need for me to pile on, Mr. Editor, but let’s just ...
“ … and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning forks” Holy Bible, Isaiah 2:4 and Micah 4:3.
FAT chance, Mr Editor, that this will actually happen any ti...
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
Let's start with the critics first, Mr. Editor. Barritt may not be making...
This is the final part in a four-part series.
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." – Chinese proverbA
change in circumstances, Mr. Editor, often leads to a change in approach....
WHEN I'm done, Mr. Editor, one of the ironies of my Parliamentary career will surely have been my attendance earlier this summer at a parliamentary conference in Guyana. I went as part of a Commonweal...
You know the old saying Mr. Editor. There's no sense beating your head against a brick wall. So let me have a go at dismantling that wall. When it comes to proposed reform of the House of Assembly, PL...
