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At the outset of his political career he posed, and then proceeded to answer to his own satisfaction, what remains among the most vexing questions in Bermudian public life. In his “Am I Being Used?” speech delivered to a City Hall audience during the...

In 1974, physicist Richard Feynman derided education research as a form of pseudoscience: “I found pseudoscientific things that even more people believe, such as that we have some knowledge of how to educate. There are big schools of reading methods ...

Dear Sir, Can someone explain to me how Preserve Marriage was granted charity status? The Charities Act defines “charitable purposes” in part as the “advancement of human rights, or the promotion of equality and diversity, and the advancement of edu...

The Cambridge Elementary School Checkpoint results provide valid reason for Bermudians to ask: why are so many of our young people struggling academically and are they being prepared for success? This also begs the question as to whether adequate and...

The late Sir John Sharp, a former Premier, would have been more than delighted over a programme aimed at developing leadership qualities being conducted by Francis Patton Elementary School, under the guidance of Garita Coddington, the principal. The...

At last, it’s under way. The work of the Commission of Inquiry into the Auditor-General’s scathing reports on the Bermuda Government’s finances between 2010 and 2012 has started. Expectations from the public will be high — and rightly so. The slipsho...

Dear Sir, Here is part four of my observations with some out-of-the-box ideas for consideration to help to address some of our self-inflicted wounds. As a businessman looking to be part of the solution: 1, The Chamber of Commerce needs to help to exp...

Nickelback is one of my favourite rock bands. A group of guys from Hanna, Alberta, Canada who have created a number of great hits. One of my favourites is Rock Star. After listening to the tune I couldn’t help but think of central bankers. That’s ri...

The latest data dump leaks, the largest in history, were released this week by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The Panama Papers, so called as the leaks came from a Panamanian law firm, implicated 140 very high-level polit...

Generally speaking, you actually are what you eat. And if you eat a diet consistently high in sugar, processed food and saturated fat, you are more likely than not a diabetic-in-waiting. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Bermuda, at once one of th...