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What does it mean to be free? To you personally? Well, you think — that’s an easy answer. “I can own and do what I want with my private property, express my opinions, think what I want, vote for who I want, marry whom I choose, I have equal rights ag...

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them” — Dalai Lama The announcement of Bermuda being selected back in December 2014 to host the 2017 America’s Cup has Bermuda now experiencing the p...

My family went to dinner at L’Oriental in the first week of 2017 and next to us was a table of what looked like 18 to 20-year-olds eating, drinking and talking. Six of them were black and six of them were white, having a good time. In contrast to tha...

Dear Sir, It has been more than 50 years since my family of born Bermudians and I left your island to start a new life, beginning here in the United States. After years of hard work and dedication, we are now retired in Ellensburg, Washington State. ...

As we celebrated Martin Luther King Day, most Americans seemed to be in agreement about one thing: Black America isn’t doing well. The Right seems to perceive black communities as hopeless morasses of violence and dysfunction, as Donald Trump’s repea...

It is interesting to read the drivel from political pundits, extolling the virtues of conservatism while denigrating with righteous indignation anything remotely progressive as left wing. Barack Obama has come to the end of his presidency amid a flur...

Imagine England in the early 1950s. It was post-Second World War and young men who had grown up in that era of conflict were lost. The UK was experiencing an epidemic of Bermuda’s equivalent to our “youth sitting on the wall”. A significant number o...

What was largely left unsaid during the recently concluded Presidential election campaign that saw the election of Donald J. Trump, was that trade treaties and their impact was not the whole picture when it came to the issue of the decline of well-pa...

In the 1970s as a 20-something, Wilfred “Mose” Allen became a mentor of mine. Mose, also known as “Scrapo”, had been a champion of social justice. While he had limited formal schooling, he was well-read, a paragon of “lifelong learning”. Notwithstan...

Dear MP Leah Scott, I had the opportunity to read your recent article published in The Royal Gazette entitled “Resolution and conversation have to be a part of the bigger picture”. It requires mental gymnastics of Olympic proportion when one attempt...