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I read Sir John Swan’s opinion with interest, and let me first say I don’t disagree with his take on the state of Bermuda’s economy because it has become a manifest reality. When the Premier himself concludes the same, it means it is not a conversati...

The recent tabling of a motion to change the Somers Day holiday to Mary Prince Day will stir emotions. There are a number of issues surrounding the date, historical relevance and context that collide and need to be guided. Indeed, the Cup Match holi...

The fight against being oppressed is not the same as fighting for freedom. Every liberation battle does not end with freedom as an automatic consequence. Liberators and seekers of freedom are often conflated; the very ideas are often conflated. We co...

Once again history has been made with the congressional impeachment of Donald Trump. The President of the United States is the third in my lifetime — fourth in 200 years, out of 45 presidents — indicted to be impeached. I recall the first impeachment...

I had a close friend who at one time in his life was an absolute radical. He would not have minded being called a Communist because he saw himself as a victim of capitalism. This sense of being a victim, particularly of capitalism, was in vogue duri...

If by the year 1993, the United Bermuda Party had reached the point of being a diminished political entity, what is the One Bermuda Alliance’s value to the electorate using the same social formula? Lets go to racial demographics, which is at the hea...

Two contrasting ideas that underscore a tale of two cities: the Premier’s speech about market intervention, and Robert Pires’s purported comment that Portuguese were brought to Bermuda because blacks after slavery did not want to work. The two commen...

After watching the funeral of the late MP Walton Brown Jr, I am mindful of an old comment put on fallen soldiers’ graves: “Let my death have more meaning than my life”. I listened carefully to all the commentaries, and, indeed, they inspired hope of ...

Greta Thunberg gave the world a dose of youthful vigour. If we are fair with ourselves, most adults will admit we, too, have been there. Political expressions from youth are often either of utopias or of catastrophes. They speak purely and innocently...

Is this protracted trade war and conflict between the United States and China a test of will, money or systems? The US is a market economy, where the producers are entrepreneurs with their own capital at risk, while China is a command economy, where ...