I sat on the Human Rights Commission for 13 years up until the end of 1998. The legislation was always a work in progress — not as one would think, as this immutable gospel or the tablet on the Mount....
Aside from putting the world on notice that ocean warming and climate change dramatically have altered our ecosystem, Hurricane Irma put on display the true nature of the wealth of nations.
The southe...
A Throne Speech is a throne speech is a throne speech, so they say. I try to be critical and look for what is being said and, equally, what hasn’t been said also. The style of this year’s speech was c...
The recent call for independence by Senator Jason Hayward at the Labour Day rally should not be a cause for alarm or surprise — and it was to be expected. There has always been a sector of labour that...
You don’t have to be a prophet to know that you cannot burn a candle at both ends. Within an economy where one of the problems may be the issues of wage and benefits, and the other may just be not eno...
I recently wrote about Sir Henry Tucker. The motive behind it was to use our history to demonstrate the power of vision and, more specifically, to highlight the role of market leaders. Sir Henry was t...
Sir Henry Tucker will stand out as one of the principle visionaries for 20th-century Bermuda. Born in 1903, he was a young man when he returned to the island after a stint working for the banks and br...
One of the platform planks in my 2008 All Bermuda Congress thrust was the consideration of time as an essential element of all government applications. One may ask why time should be made to be of ess...
Is law and its adjudication applicable only because they have been written and only then to be observed and followed? Or is law improvisational and can be determined in the moment whose true efficacy ...
The near 60 per cent mandate received from the electorate on July 18 was an unequivocal indicator that the Progressive Labour Party received much more than core support in the General Election.
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