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Firstly, sorry about the missing column last week. I could explain to you the couple of weeks I’ve had that led to that, but that would not be for this column! Thanks to those of you who expressed your dismay at the column not appearing and thanks al...

Spencer Field felt a rush the first time he opened a beehive. As he peered under the wooden lid, thousands of little worker bees looked up at him. He remained calm, and so did they. “They take their cues from you,” he said. Unlike some on the course...

I am not one to make excuses, but I must ask you not to mind if I address a subject once again that I wrote about on September 5, 2008. On some weeks my mind will just not come up with a brand new, never-before-discussed topic. I am thinking abou...

Peter Raymont likes to joke that at 67, he’s really old. When he started as a film-maker, a Bolex movie camera was state-of-the-art. It used 16-millimetre film and had three lens settings. “I used them when I started out working as an editor for the...

Human migration is the process where individuals enter the boundaries of a country of which they are not citizens with the intention of becoming a permanent resident. Currently, more than 70 million people have been forced out of their native countri...

Five students from CedarBridge Academy attended a youth summit in mid-March, themed “A Peace Building Commonwealth”, at XL-Catlin Ltd on Commonwealth Day. The purpose of this event was to help the students in the most positive and productive way, by ...

Eight CedarBridge Academy students travelled to the United Nations International School-UN Conference — topic: “Migration Crossing the Line” — where they learnt a lot about group work and how to give and work as a team during the duration of the trip...

The UN defines an international migrant as “any person who changes his or her country of usual residence”. There is an estimated 191 million immigrants in the world, a number that is almost twice what it was 50 years ago. Some 60 per cent of the wor...

My experience attending the 2017 United Nations conference was unforgettable. Attending this conference really opened my eyes beyond Bermuda and the rest of the world. This year’s topic was “Migration: Crossing the Line”. I gained a wealth of knowle...

It’s hard for children in Bermuda to imagine life in the Arctic. It’s over 3,000 miles away, and a lot colder. Northlands Primary principal Charles Joyiens had to do a lot of explaining when he told students they’d Skype with someone there. “They k...