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Last week Friday was my first time sitting in the House of Assembly, and what a day that was. Being a student of Bermudian politics for the past 15 years and listening to the House religiously, hearing some of the shenanigans by grown adults while re...

MURIEL WADE-SMITH PhD has been fighting the fight for education and for recognition of her craft for the past several decades. In recent times, she has taken to writing to politicians to be given what she believes to be her fair dues, as well as fell...

The imagery that night was not subtle. A crowd of jubilant concertgoers were enjoying one of the top acts in country music, flanked by palatial resorts on all sides. The steady, unnerving sound of automatic gunfire at first sounded like an audio glit...

America’s elite colleges are more selective than ever before. They also remain disproportionately populated by the wealthy — in part because many qualified students from poor backgrounds do not even apply. The good news is that there are proven strat...

The start of the new academic year at public schools was marked by major problems. Briefly, these were the insecure future of the Commissioner of Education, the mould at a middle school, and the general state of cleanliness and disrepair. Such proble...

Bermudians are, by and large, an independent, canny and resourceful people. In many ways we have long embodied what Theodore Roosevelt meant when he said that “far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work wor...

Dear Sir, The life in which we are born brings with it the beginning process of education. From the moment we are born, we are of impressionable minds and easily led. Our curiosity then goes into play and it is from that point on that there is no sto...

Everyone needs a job, from the time that a child is relatively small through to virtually the end of adult life. Work provides purpose and motivation: mentally, physically, financially, and sometimes, spiritually fulfilling. Work is not as we like t...

Even during this island’s very palmiest days in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there were people living on the outskirts of hope, those who had been left behind as remarkable economic growth brought unparalleled opportunity for most Bermudians. In m...

Now that the One Bermuda Alliance has presented its Reply to the Throne Speech, readers may find it interesting to analyse the messages from the speeches by looking at them — by words and numbers — to understand the priorities of each party. But firs...