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“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.” —Turkish Proverb It is very rare that I would write a follow-up t...

Vaxism I think we are witnessing a blue eyes, brown eyes experiment that no one could have predicted. The Oprah Show was not one of my favourites, but there were two episodes that are etched in my memory. The “you get a car” happy episode wh...

Inflation. We all know it when we see it. Prices rise, gas stations have lines. Graphs point upward. Eyebrows lift. Eyeballs roll. From Mary Tyler Moore gently tossing a package of meat into her shopping cart in the opening credits of her 1970s sitco...

Spare a little sympathy — just a little — for Clarien Bank. When it announced that it was giving $100,000 to assist Black and members of other underrepresented groups to pay their school fees at private schools, its executives presumably expected to...

Dear Sir, “Bermudian Resilience” being the theme of Heritage Month this year, I take the opportunity to recommend to readers a rather wonderful (and certainly very apt) long poem called Sarah Simon, by the once-famous American poet-novelist Hervey Al...

Dear Sir, I read in the news recently about the stabbing by a young man over a piece of jewellery — a gold chain, to be specific. It is obvious that this young man and others who engage in similar acts have experienced a complete disconnect from soci...

On April 15, Indianapolis police arrived at the FedEx ground facility where a former employee shot and killed eight people, and wounded several others. About 90 per cent of the workers at the FedEx warehouse are members of the local Sikh community, a...

Dear Sir, In these hard times, I wanted to share a child’s viewpoint. We often do not think about their view of what is happening, and how hard all of this has been on them. My son is 6 and he has found online learning very, very challenging, as hav...

Dear Sir, There is a beauty in numerous nationalities coming together with a unified aim. The Department of Statistics informed us on International Nurses Day that King Edward VII Memorial Hospital employs 514 nurses from 29 different countries. Thi...

It would be an indictment on Bermuda if it failed to use up the stock of Covid-19 vaccines that has been generously provided by the British Government and, more recently, the Covax organisation. There are countries of millions of people, often poore...