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I first met Clinton Smith in the early 1960s as a fellow student at Berkeley Institute, where his mother, Hyacinth Smith, served as school secretary. His team-mates from that 1966 championship PHC Juniors football squad remember how Clint would be i...

The Reverend T. Wendell Foster passed peacefully at his home in New York last week after decades of service in the United States and Bermuda. It happens that I had the fortune of catching up with this mentor and his extended family during his visit t...

On Labour Day 2018, while pushing a friend, Alvin Williams, in a wheelchair into a KEMH elevator, an acquaintance called out to me, that he thought that I would be at Union Square, at that time. His comment sparked the thought, that assisting someone...

That July 18 was the 101st birthday of Nelson Mandela made it very appropriate to hold the prize presentation for the quiz of the 60th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott. This took place at One Communications’ Church Street venue, just across the st...

There is an ancient Chinese saying that suggests challenging times offer opportunities. The Royal Gazette reported yesterday that only four children had been enrolled at Elliot Primary for this coming September. The report goes on to note that the pa...

Reminded that “it takes a village ...”, the Back to School Gathering at the Bermuda College took place last Thursday to promote the tandem between families and schools to the benefit of our island’s children. The gathering attracted upwards of 40 peo...

Schools across the island are into their last week of the fall term, as the calendar year rumbles to a close. It is evident that schools play an essential part in the development of young people; however, it provides only a portion of their growth. I...

In the 1970s as a 20-something, Wilfred “Mose” Allen became a mentor of mine. Mose, also known as “Scrapo”, had been a champion of social justice. While he had limited formal schooling, he was well-read, a paragon of “lifelong learning”. Notwithstan...

Does anyone know who their father is? This question posed in the Greek myth, The Odyssey, is asked by a son who grew up while his father spent many years “fighting battles in distant lands”. The answer wouldn’t pertain to DNA, but something deeper. D...

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 ...