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Dear Sir, As I fly over Bermuda and look down, I think of Shakespeare’s words: “This precious stone set in the silver sea.” It has sometimes been less happy on the ground. I was born to Bermudian parents in the United States, so when I came home, imm...

Dear Sir, On July 13, I arrived home on American Airlines Flight 308 from Miami. We were due to arrive at 9.45pm, but we arrived 10.45pm instead. With that being said, that night JetBlue and American Airlines from New York were also late. We all came...

Dear Sir, Cup Match is over while Labour Day beckons, yet each are similar in emphasising the unyielding labour and effort of our predecessors in moving this country from one of limited, confined and restricted movement and opportunity for blacks to ...

Dear Sir, The photographs of sleeping MPs in today’s Royal Gazette (July 31, 2018) is worth more than a million words. Congratulations to the person who took them and to you for publishing them. Most of the comments on your blog were critical of the...

Dear Sir, Last Friday (July 27, 2018) was not April’s Fool Day. A car crashed through the retaining wall at Bailey’s Bay and landed at the water’s edge. The driver explained: “The sun went into my eyes and that was it.” That palpable excuse is so la...

Dear Sir, With reference to the article on July 30 under the headline “Famous: don’t forget Cup Match origins”, Sir George Somers was a senior seaman (admiral). He died in 1611. There was no slavery in Bermuda at that time. I find no evidence that h...

Dear Sir, I am a tad confused here; or, perhaps, it’s Leah Scott whose comments are confusing. Shall I test her comments made in Sessions House in Bermuda last Friday when she stated: “I had a client call me last week who has been stalked by someone...

Dear Sir, There was a time when the workers of Bermuda had no representation either in Parliament, the workplace or by way of any union recognition — no support at all. I remember the days when my mother went to work in the hotels. She never saw her ...

Dear Sir, There has been talk in the House of Assembly that Sir George Somers was a slave owner. As a student of Bermuda history all my life, I can find no evidence whatsoever to support this. Sir George carried no slaves on the Sea Venture in 1609,...

The following is a letter from an inmate at Westgate Correctional Facility. The letter, owing to the vagaries of the Bermuda postal system, did not arrive until the day before Cup Match despite being date-stamped June 11 at Westgate. Although the fes...