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In light of the news regarding Bermuda’s 2020 Rhodes Scholar, I am forced to consider the legacy of Cecil Rhodes and whether it is reconcilable to accept an opportunity founded upon a legacy of genocide and colonialism. I post these thoughts not in d...

Readers have spoken. The launch of the year-long, once-a-month Moneywise pretend portfolio project has generated interest and reader feedback. We thank everyone who has taken time from their busy schedules to send commentary. The Moneywise mission h...

I really enjoy opening an old bottle of wine and thinking of all that has taken place since the grapes were ripening on the vine. For instance, I had strategically placed a double magnum of 1990 Cignale on our kitchen island before Neil and Maria Em...

Like nearly all Americans of a certain age, I was told in school that tobacco, alcohol and marijuana are gateway drugs — and that is why marijuana should remain illegal. First of all, even if you accept that these three substances are “gateways” to ...

I first met Clinton Smith in the early 1960s as a fellow student at Berkeley Institute, where his mother, Hyacinth Smith, served as school secretary. His team-mates from that 1966 championship PHC Juniors football squad remember how Clint would be i...

We know this much already: there will be an election next year. People will spend money, eat food, watch (and play) sports, use phone apps and play video games, and countries around the world will engage in diplomacy — and conflict. The details of al...

On November 23, St James Church in Somerset was filled for the Celebration of the Life of the late Veronica Ross. The congregation heard aspects of how this loving mother, iconic educator and community exemplar was not only concerned about some, but ...

Imagine a world where buying groceries worked like this: Each month, you pay a certain amount into a fund, call it a food premium fund, to cover most of your grocery-buying expenses. If you’re employed, you have to join with your work colleagues in ...

David Burt, Kim Wilson, Rolfe Commissiong and their sidekicks in the Progressive Labour Party have kicked off an intense interest with their proposals to create socialised medicine in Bermuda in 2020 despite the opposition of virtually all of the med...

“How good and how pleasant it will be before God and man to see the unification of all Bermudians” I read, with interest, Guilden Gilbert’s opinion of November 25, 2019 (“White Bermuda must change mindset to unite country”). The depiction of Bermuda...