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“The stone that the builder refused has become the head cornerstone.” — Psalm 118:22 Growing up in the rural mountains of Tortola in the Virgin Islands, my mother and her four sisters never had to worry about going hungry, being bullied or ...

Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch insisted in the House of Assembly last Friday that the demolition of the historic house Wantley will go ahead despite objections from community organisations. The Minister of Public Works defended the decision in a sta...

No, Bermuda merchants are not ripping us off as some claim — although it certainly feels like it at times. As many would attest, buying goods in Bermuda has been historically expensive. So why does it “feel” like prices on the island have been gettin...

In a continuing series on marine debris to mark World Oceans Day on Tuesday, Bermuda Marine Debris Taskforce members Hannah Horsfield and Julie Cross Steele look at methods of skimming trash off the surface of oceans, inland waters and harbours ...

There’s a non-trivial element of entertainment involved in the act — or art — of teaching. If you think back to your favourite teachers over the years, whether from school or university, I would wager that they found a way to convey their own interes...

Former One Bermuda Alliance senator Vic Ball is at it again. This time, he penned an opinion saying that we live in a “dictatorship”. Really? Just because you don’t win, Mr Ball, doesn’t mean that we live in a dictatorship. Fair-minded people can ha...

“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...