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“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” — Margaret Thatcher I find it amusing and interesting, yet not surpris...

“Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.” — Winston Churchill For months, I resisted watching a very popular Netflix series by the name of The Crown. which follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizab...

“Now Main Street’s whitewashed windows and vacant stores Seems like there ain’t nobody wants to come down here no more They’re closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks Foreman says these jobs are going, boys, and they ain’t coming bac...

A few days ago, I bumped into someone who on a daily basis has a lot to say online about politics and what the Government should or should not do. Initially, I was a bit excited to see them, thinking that they would expound their opinions in a face-t...

In the blink of an eye it will be 2020. Some will claim it as a new decade, while others will say 2021 is the start of a new decade. Putting aside the semantics, it will be a new month and new year. The question we have to ask ourselves as individual...

I had the opportunity and privilege last Friday, December 13, of getting to sit in the House of Assembly. No, not the House of Assembly of Bermuda, but the House of Assembly for the Virgin Islands. Located in the heart of Road Town, Tortola, this whi...

“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In the biblical times, a man’s worth was measured by the number of ...

“Do not glad-hand me!” Dear Tim, Do you remember your first spoken words to me more than five years ago at the gas station on Par-la-Ville Road? Apparently, still extremely irate at a comment I made about an editorial you wrote a few weeks earlier. ...

Not surprisingly, there are those of the opinion that elected persons are mortal enemies who, at no time whatsoever, share any form of human compassion among themselves. This is far from the truth, and in fact many are extremely friendly, if not frie...

Dear Jason, By the time you read this, the results will be in and final. No matter the results, you are always a winner to us, your family. Why do I say this? Well, basically, since the day you were born, the family have seen you take the path of l...