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This past weekend marked the end of Lent and the beginning of spring, a time of renewal. Lent commemorates Jesus spending 40 days in the wilderness: fasting, overcoming substantial temptations, accessing his higher self, emerging as the Christ — the ...

Today marks United Nations’ International Women’s Day, a time to reflect on those issues that impact the lives of women, locally and globally. It is also an opportunity to highlight the exemplary contributions of various women in society. In Bermuda,...

“He not busy being born, is busy dying” — Bob Dylan Last Saturday a large celebration observing the 92nd birthday of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was held, costing a reported $800,000. The former finance minister, Simba Makoni, complained that...

Life is change.Growth is optional.Choose wisely.— Karen Kaiser ClarkOn February 21, 1965, Malcolm X (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) was assassinated. He was one of four public figures targeted in the United States within a five-year period. John F. Kenned...

“To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existenceThe next best, the people honour and praiseThe next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ...When the best leader’s work is done, the peo...

“If I’m not for me, then who is for me?“If I’m only for me, then who am I?“If not me, who? If not now, when?”Last week’s announcement of a collaboration in which J.J. Soares made an agreement with Age Concern to provide free medical examinations for ...

Last week, leading up to Christmas, most global media outlets carried a story — datelined December 22 — which reported: “A group of Muslims travelling on an overcrowded bus in North East Kenya took a stand against gun-wielding Islamic extremists, ref...

The success at the recently completed Paris Climate Conference, in which 196 countries concluded an historic agreement on the complex issue of global warming, is something of a miracle. It is an example by representatives of most of the seven billion...

The Bermuda family experienced one of its deepest crises on the weekend of December 2, 1977 — the violent conclusion to a five-year period with ten lives lost. Notwithstanding the tragedy, as documented in Jonathan Smith’s latest book, Island Flames,...

Last week, during a late afternoon swim, I was surprised at seeing a thirtysomething woman swim out into the deep water, towards the reef line, by herself. The weather was not ideal (although not rough) on that day and, in fact, I was the only other...