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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...

Dear Sir, As we enter Phase 2, I feel we must return to the topic of Bermuda’s unsustainable tax and spending imbalances. We face difficult choices from an internal perspective as well as rising external pressures. There will always being a reason t...

Bermuda has turned into a violent country. Statistically, that is what our homicide numbers are portraying us as. Our murder rate per capita is higher than Canada, Britain, and most countries in Europe. Our ten-year average trend, dating back to 201...

Dear Sir, During the global Covid-19 pandemic I have been following Bermuda’s progress from afar with concern for family and friends on the island. I am relieved to note that the active-cases number appears to be consistently falling after the recent...

The period of the 1940s through to the early 1960s saw tremendous movements in Africa inspired by many new activists such as Kwame Nkrumah, of Ghana, Patrice Lamumba, of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Jomo Kenyatta, of Kenya, to name a few. Th...