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Some years ago Dame Lois Browne-Evans said in a speech, “People complain about the Westminster system, but the problem is they don’t know how to improve upon it”. Her comments were heartfelt and, after serving a long and distinguished career in Parli...

I recall one evening, somewhere around 1968, being shocked out of my boots at a political rally at Devonshire Recreation Club when Arthur Hodgson said in a speech with his bellowing deep voice: “The objective in politics is to gain power.” He said i...

The conversation about the long march for human dignity will cross many borders of thought. Depending, of course, on how one defines a human, or what is the criterion of being a human, will set the parameter of any debate on the subject. For ease of ...

There is one thing that holds true: people don’t always know what they want, but they do know what they don’t want. This shows when looking at politics and the evolution of ideas of freedom and democracy. If one was looking for a particular jewel of...

My apologies, but I have to interrupt my writing today to report a dream. Last Monday night, I had a long but very clear dream. The location was Cedar Hill, Warwick — the entire hillside, including all the valley that consumes the bowling alley and t...

I need to speak to the thorny subject of a minimum and living wage, which has been proposed as legislation. I can certainly relate to the morality of people working and earning enough to afford a roof over their heads and raise a family, with all tha...

I have been driven to a saturation point with some social-media displays. It’s not that I don’t appreciate a person’s sharing, but nowadays one has to be judicious about how much information they want to consume. Watching the police shoot a mentally ...

I have been driven to a saturation point with some social-media displays. It’s not that I don’t appreciate a person’s sharing, but nowadays one has to be judicious about how much information they want to consume. Watching the police shoot a mentally...

One of the great advantages Bermuda has enjoyed historically is the fact there were no wars fought on its shores, unlike most other countries. Unless we count the single cannon ball fired from Gates Fort in St George’s at a Spanish rowing boat. We d...

I like to be positive, so even when pointing to the dark side, it is an attempt to make us do better. Finding a distance between personal bias, desire and ambition seems to be the Achilles’ heel that besets leadership and is often the cause for the d...