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My first reaction to reading the article on the tragic death of an at-risk 16-year-old girl placed in an overseas institution was guilt. I felt this way because, apart from a few heroes, I remained silent like the rest of our society over the alarmin...

Bermudian voters are politically astute and they have proven that they are no pushovers. Between 1998 and 2017 we have been see-sawing between the two political parties. But there comes a time when the voters themselves need to take stock of their ch...

Dame Margaret Hodge is a colourful, brilliant and confident Member of Parliament for the London Borough of Islington, the place from where my father emigrated. There has been a recent war of words in Britain’s House of Commons as both she and fellow ...

One could argue that a successful public education system is a moral duty of every government and that it is a human right for every young Bermudian to be provided with one. An unsuccessful public education system affects our whole society, regardles...

French historian, politician and abolitionist Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in the 1830s: “There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” It could be argued that this statement is not only timeless but ...

The introduction of tax reform measures is one of the most important items that should be on the Agenda for any political party vying to win this upcoming election. Tax reform is critical to Bermuda’s economic recovery and clearly the One Bermuda Al...

My family went to dinner at L’Oriental in the first week of 2017 and next to us was a table of what looked like 18 to 20-year-olds eating, drinking and talking. Six of them were black and six of them were white, having a good time. In contrast to tha...

The formation of a public education trust fund could be a way of creating the capital necessary for the reformation of the public education system. It would also save middle-class parents from expending $500,000 in private school fees for two childre...

Globally, a private school education is something that is generally afforded by the wealthy, the elite, expatriates or for religious reasons. The average percentage of the student population attending private schools in Britain is 7 per cent, Japan 7...

The proposed “Pathways to Status” giving permanent resident’s certificates to those who have been here for 15 years is environmentally unsustainable, racially divisive and salt in the wound to those who are unemployed. Evidently, this would not have ...