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Marcus Mosiah Garvey once said, “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” It is incumbent upon us as young people to look back at the struggles that our ancestors endured. We must acknowl...

Sunday’s announcement from the White House that Malia Obama would take a gap year before starting at Harvard University in the autumn of 2017 drew swift reactions on social media — a mix of support, ridicule for delaying adulthood and some envy that ...

Nelson Hunt is not likely to be furnished with a gun permit after he has had his chat with the Premier. That much we can virtually guarantee. But it is evidently clear that recent events have triggered an attitude within right-thinking Bermudians who...

In any society with diverse views, there will often be differing perspectives and views of the “others”. Here in Bermuda, we have a country of at least two different cultures and varying socioeconomic circles. Over the next few months, I will be taki...

Even though my wife and I plan to make every effort to avoid creating competition between our babies, we’ve probably already started. Which one is moving more? Which is making mommy uncomfortable? Which is kicking mommy’s ribs and bladder? But what ...

Dear Sir, I am delighted to know that the musical group Up With People are once again visiting Bermuda, visiting schools and performing for the public. I congratulate Up With People, as it encourages young people not only in their musical developmen...

Dear Sir, The Portuguese family of Bermuda moved from being third-class citizens to first-class in a little more than 40 years. From a beginnings of 1849 up to 1965, which is approximately 120 years’ later, they still had not penetrated the socio-ec...

Something which I think is important for my children to learn early, and which my wife is a great example of (you can tell her I said that), is giving maximum effort. The Baha’i quote “ … make ye a mighty effort, and choose for yourselves a noble go...

Why can so few people seem to save any money? The number of people scraping along from paycheque to paycheque is astonishing; surveys routinely find that somewhere between a third and half of all Americans don’t have the savings to fund ordinary emer...

While teaching US history at a public charter high school, Julian Hipkins III noticed that students tended to assume that “race” was as old as mankind. “Almost like it was natural, a given,” as he put it. So, using specialised lessons, Hipkins helped...