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This week I laid out before a teachers group a few positions, and made some assertions about the Bermuda Union of Teachers’ hierarchy, hoping to be thumped and countered by contrary facts by any of its 1,000 members — but “nada”. Today, it should be ...

I am trying to maintain composure and not be overly critical. I certainly do not want to be polarised in any of my observations and criticisms, appearing just to be against everything the Government does; perchance there is higher wisdom at work. But...

I love history, in particular the nuance that different perspectives lend to its narrative and accounts. I remember years ago reading about the beginnings of the Bermuda Union of Teachers and the cause of its inception. At the time, my interest was ...

I know that democracy is not the be-all and end-all, but when an individual can simply decide on their own to plunge millions of people into war with no one to check the limits of their discretion, democracy begins to look pretty good. In trying to b...

OK, the ink has dried on Curtis Dickinson's resignation, there was no applause for the David Burt’s swearing-in ceremony as Minister of Finance, and why not? Was it because there were others whom the public had in mind as suitably qualified or more e...

I remember many years ago Julian Hall referring to Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch’s actions as a “train wreck in slow motion”. The former premier Paula Cox, during her tenure as Minister of Finance, was plagued with the term “cog in the wheel”. I don...

Vanishing baby-boomers face a new world of leaders born into the political arena without a cause. It is not often that I have had the occasion to tune in to the St Paul AME Church service on a Sunday morning. Listening to the Reverend Nicholas Tweed ...

I was thinking recently of the transition that will invariably happen in Britain with the Queen and the heir to the Crown, the Prince of Wales, who will become King. Charles himself, who can no longer claim the status of being a young man, will be st...

I am very enthused by the number of people that have recently become tuned in to ancestry.com and other like instruments. It must be common now and fairly widespread particularly when I can go to a random coffee shop and overhear three persons chatti...

Some readers will remember, with widely different perspectives, the events around the independence referendum of 1995. Some may remember it as the beginning of the end for the United Bermuda Party and certainly the end of the premiership of Sir John...