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Dear Sir, Bermuda is a very small, complex, divided community. Public schools, and those teachers that work there, are dealing with a wider variety of students and a wider variety of parents, all of whom have varying degrees of concern and opinion ab...

On Labour Day 2018, while pushing a friend, Alvin Williams, in a wheelchair into a KEMH elevator, an acquaintance called out to me, that he thought that I would be at Union Square, at that time. His comment sparked the thought, that assisting someone...

Education is not only the foundation for success in people’s lives, but it is also something that enhances lives. Every child should have access to a high-quality education, so that they may live their life to the fullest extent. The Bermuda public...

On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine published a series of essays constituting what it calls “The 1619 Project”, a look at America’s legacy of slavery at the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to what is now the United ...

Sitting relaxed behind my computer, I was abruptly but pleasantly interrupted by a telephone caller who was listening to the Premier, David Burt, on the Sherry J talk show. To paraphrase the comments, when the Premier was asked what he was doing to s...

Reparations to African-Americans for slavery, and the systemic oppression that followed, is now the stuff of congressional hearings and Democratic presidential debates. Twenty-nine per cent of Americans support reparations, according to Gallup, up fr...

In my motion to adjourn speech on July 19, I stated that I intend to be the longest-serving education minister in Bermuda. This was not said to be vain, but was said because I recognise how disruptive it can be to our education system to have a revol...

This is the second in a new, possibly monthly, series on the millennial trend to becoming financially independent, retire early (FIRE!). We first covered this phenomenon on July 27. FIRE! is a very real financial movement in its lifestyle changing a...

The Premier, David Burt, was quoted as making the following comment in the House of Assembly on July 12: “I don’t think economic reasons are the main reasons that people leave Bermuda. The main [reasons] revolve around education and issues inside our...

I have seen Toni Morrison a handful of times in my life. The most notable was the first time, when I went to hear her read from Paradise while studying abroad in London. It was 1998. I replayed the speech I’d been practising as we waited in line. All...