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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...

Well, isn’t that rich? No pun intended. Nathan Kowalski, reported financial expert at Anchor Investment Management, has fired the first salvo against minimum wages in stating “a lot of work needs to be done”. Make no mistake about it, he is in code l...

Sixteen years from now, when my son applies to college, odds are that he will not be asked about his race or where his parents went to college. He will confront a starkly different admissions landscape than I did in the early 2000s, when many univers...

This is Cup Match week. The teams have been selected, Somerset Cricket Club and its grounds are being made to look smart, and revellers are at the ready for festivities all over the island. The buzz of excitement is palpable. The hope is that we have...

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...

One hundred runs! Something that every cricketer dreams of getting. More so, they dream of getting those elusive 100 runs during Cup Match. A feat very few have achieved. One hundred years of age! Ten decades on Earth, something many dream about, yet...

Populism is reverberating throughout the world. It manifests via polarised political outcomes; trade skirmishes or immigration backlash and it affects nearly all regions. In fact, demographically we are likely entering a period of heightened tensions...

As a former education minister, and the present Shadow Minister of Education and Workforce Development, I thought that I would share with the community some ideas I came across after reading an interesting article on education and independent thinkin...

The Government’s plans to phase out middle schools appear to contradict its much vaunted strategic plan for education. Last week, the education minister announced plans to phase out middle schools and introduce signature schools. To be precise, he s...

As we sit back and reflect on the past 12 months of Bermuda’s history, we are struck by a variety of thoughts, feelings and visions. First, let us say thank you to all who participated in the democratic process of registering to vote and subsequently...