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The recent Black Lives Matters Bermuda march, which was the largest and most comprehensive procession ever witnessed on the streets of Bermuda, was a momentous event. Not to capitalise on that achievement would be a missed opportunity. Although this...

One hundred years from now, how would historians have characterised this period we now call today. In the perspective of black history, how or in what context would this current period be labelled amid the 400 year travail, and assuming one hundred y...

The thought of justice and the idea of equal justice under the law have once again raised the attention of lawmakers in the United States, this time with added awareness and apprehension spread around the world. Ultimately it comes around to the cour...

First, I cannot make an apology for my opinion. It’s my qualified assessment, while realising there are levels along a full spectrum of racial attitudes — some more humanly evolved than others. I therefore speak to the lowest level of that spectrum,...

J.C. “Kit” Astwood was an indomitable force in local politics and business for at least a half-century in Bermuda. From the late 1950s and into the 21st century, nothing happened in the political sphere or business that Kit did not have some involve...

It would be hard not to write about Eva Hodgson, who was an indomitable force and voice against racism in Bermuda. That she lived to such old age while still maintaining her presence is as remarkable. Her first book, Second Class Citizens, First Clas...

Although we live under a parliamentary government, the primary functions or mechanisms of governance are in many ways similar in all government systems. During this pandemic the role of the Minister of Finance, called in some jurisdictions the Treas...

Often we hear of persons forced to live in exile and, typically when we do, we think of persons fleeing the Soviet bloc or China, or many African regimes. Rarely do we consider jurisdictions in the West filled with human rights legislation as places ...

It would be nice if we could see life beyond politics, in particular beyond personalised politics. If we could for just a minute look at things from a sociological perspective, or even historical rather than as a PLP, UBP, or OBA perspective it may b...

During this Arabic calendar month of Ramadan, it is worth extracting some of the essence that resonates with its significance: “One word of truth is heavier than the universe.” Said in other words, “the universe will implode and crumble before truth ...