Congratulations indeed are in order for Freddie Evans on his appointment as Commissioner of Education. He has made a lasting contribution to education in Bermuda, is well respected by his peers, havin...
“Some call it tampee
Some call it weed
Some call it marijuana
Some of them call it ganja
Legalise it and don’t criticise it
Legalise it, ye-ah, ye-ah, and I will advertise it”
It has been more than 40...
The dress rehearsal was not spectacular, but there were many lessons to be learnt from what transpired on December 2, 2016 so that today should go as smoothly as can be expected. If last week was anyt...
In the week that the murder of another young Bermudian male has cast a pall of despair over the country, it is both uplifting and comforting that a handful of the very same demographic can elicit a sm...
When outgoing US President Barack Obama lamented the state of democracy in his farewell address to the American public this week, one can only hope that prominent members of our own community were lis...
Ever since union leader Chris Furbert let slip on Labour Day that someone “very dear to us” had his work permit expire and was waiting to learn if it would be renewed, the saga of the Reverend Nichola...
It would be equally naive and disingenuous to proclaim that this is a time for healing in Bermuda. With Christmas falling so soon after the “Pepper Spray Protests”, and our police and politicians in g...
When Andrew Bascome embraced Rastafarianism in the late 1980s, it was the beginning of a healing period that would not reach maturity until Monday morning.
We may never know what inspired the man to u...
“You don’t want to mess with us. There are people with ammunition; they may come here — that’s what they told me. I tried to calm them down; they will shoot. They will come.”
If December 2 was a day t...
March 2016 played host to the Pathways to Status Bill. December 2016, only two days young, the poor lass, has delivered the airport redevelopment legislation. The common denominator? Neither political...
