“It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled”
— Mark Twain
Hindsight always affords us the opportunity to see precisely why David Burt cunningly rushed b...
“Where there is no vision, the people perish”
— Proverbs 29:18
Bermuda, what else needs to occur before David Burt’s leadership is declared an official national disaster? He has presided over ...
“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.” — Unknown
Bermuda, somewhere along the line, we as a societ...
“Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age”
— General Colin Powell
The specifics of the Fairmont Southampton “done deal” are slowly emerging. It points to why there was so much secrecy ...
“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful”. — Margaret J. Wheatley
One of the most important national and politi...
“One of the deadliest causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people's successes.”
— Is...
“If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence”
— Bayar Rustin
I write this in reaction to the sensational video I watched yesterday morning with Holl...
“A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
It was recently reported on February 21 that for the third consecutive year Bermuda has recorded the g...
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
— Abraham Lincoln
If you listened to the Budge...
“Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say”
— Bill Carney
The short answer is no one really knows. However, when an incident as spectacular as th...