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I was fortunate to have encountered the late Margaret Thatcher in person at the turn of the millennium. I recall a speech where the British prime minister laid her concerns that rogue nations were on the rise and becoming so powerful that they had ra...

Many persons have heard of Captain Jimmy Darrell, whose his excellent work with the British Royal Navy and role as a sea captain navigating the treacherous channels of Bermuda earned him his freedom and ownership of property. Virtually no one has hea...

The period of the 1940s through to the early 1960s saw tremendous movements in Africa inspired by many new activists such as Kwame Nkrumah, of Ghana, Patrice Lamumba, of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Jomo Kenyatta, of Kenya, to name a few. Th...

“Honour thy mother and thy father so that your days may be long upon the Earth” That biblical verse is a principle that has been upheld in varying degrees by many societies and traditions. Its observation was long estblished on empirical evidenc...

This is not intended as an anti-political party opinion, as much as it is intended to cause reflection and hopefully develop a sense of accountability for the truth of the effects of party politics on Bermuda. It has been stated and even repeated tha...

The 1960s saw real and explosive change in Bermuda. Given the international background, change abounded globally. In Africa, the Caribbean, and through civil rights and other movements in the United States, a potent environment was established. On r...

Twentieth-century Bermuda began as a new diversity. We have the presence of the British and their bases, which invariably meant the residual fallout from many of their global conflicts would end up on our shores. The “Bully Roosters”, who had active...

The 20th-century Bermuda, which by then had become a larger and more diverse population compared with the century that went before, was characteristically different in that — rather than a symbiotic albeit uneven codependency — unleashed was a battle...

Bermuda as a continuously evolving country has moved to the point where its future may no longer resemble any of its past. The long and winding, at times twisted, legacy notwithstanding is still the most instructive tool to capture from where we came...

Initially, when I heard of the Covid-19 virus, my thoughts went instantly to bacteria or germ warfare, and that this virus was some kind of payback. There was an abundance of plausible deniability, which, even if it were true, would be very hard to p...