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Here’s something about the deal to build a new airport you may not have noticed before: if the Combined Opposition get an answer they can’t deny to one issue, they move on to another. Take the question of whether Bermuda needs a new airport. The Prog...

Several weeks ago, the Bermuda College was featured in a front-page news article that carried the concerns of former nurse Meredith Ebbin, regarding our Associate of Science (Nursing) Degree programme, specifically in respect to its sustainability an...

The reporting on August 13 of the rift between Progressive Labour Party leader Marc Bean and three former members of his shadow cabinet raised more questions than answers. I investigated online sources that weekend and got answers and more for a mode...

One of the key arguments often given for why it is important to increase the diversity of America’s teaching force is that students of colour do better academically when they have teachers of colour. A 2010 study titled Diversifying the Teaching For...

Children and teenagers in the world’s developed countries have a more than 50 per cent chance of living past 100. By the early 2100s, in other words, “being a centenarian will no longer be a rarity. In fact, it will be the norm”. That from Lynda Grat...

On August 13, 1996, Leonard Frederick Wade, the leader of the Progressive Labour Party suddenly passed away while he prepared to travel to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the 42nd Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference. His passing saddened an...

The Bermuda Government is responsible for many things that affect our daily lives. Think of health standards, garbage collection, taxation, education, firefighting, child services, libraries, parks ... The list goes on, but if you boiled it down to ...

The issue of same-sex marriage must be addressed with due consideration for every human being, but we are not the only country who has faced this issue. There are several countries around the world that recognise same-sex marriage: Argentina, Canada,...

Dear Sir, Sixty years brings with it the working value of two generations and September 2016 happens to be the 60th anniversary of the opening of the former Bermuda Technical Institute. The school opened in 1956 and closed in 1972 — basically a 16-ye...

Are we there yet? This is a question frequently asked by persons on a journey to a place not yet known to them. In 1834, England declared that all enslaved persons throughout the British Empire were to be set free of slavery. August 1 was to be their...