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Dear Sir, parents, teachers, students and stakeholders of the public school system, “The education of African people is an urgent necessity. It is a matter of life and death. We cannot abide another generation of children who have no identity and wh...

The results are in. The Trump tax cuts resulted in most families saving so little that majorities continue to insist they see no difference in their paycheques. But one very small group made out spectacularly. According to figures put together by eco...

If parts of Judge Allison Burroughs’s decision in the Harvard affirmative-action case don’t seem to make sense, it’s not entirely her fault. She was bound by the Supreme Court’s precedents on the subject, and the justices have been refining absurdity...

Each year the complaints start to trickle in from friends and co-workers right around the second week of school: “Little Johnny has so much homework. In first grade! He’s exhausted already.” “I spend all of my free time after work trying to help my ...

Last week during the motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly, those in the chambers and, indeed, the wider listening audience were treated to former Cabinet minister Sylvan Richards throwing a challenge to members of the Progressive Labour Party. ...

“The European Chemicals agency estimates there are more than 144,000 man-made chemicals in existence. The US Department of Health estimates 2,000 new chemicals are being released every year. The UN Environment Programme warns most of these have never...

Revelations about Boris Johnson’s personal life, when they periodically emerge, have tended mainly to serve as tabloid fodder for a few days and then flame out. Two recent allegations, however, could prove much harder for the Prime Minister to simply...

Is this protracted trade war and conflict between the United States and China a test of will, money or systems? The US is a market economy, where the producers are entrepreneurs with their own capital at risk, while China is a command economy, where ...

Ruth Seaton James was the first woman and the first black person to head a government department in Bermuda. That milestone in the island’s long march towards racial and gender equality occurred on August 22, 1966 with her appointment as Registrar-Ge...

Green shoots of encouragement could be found from one end of the island to the other in the wake of Hurricane Humberto. The resolve of Bermuda in genuine times of stress yet again proved unbreakable — not so much a show of arrogance in the face of im...