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A way forward during the Covid-19 crisis is an important discussion to be had. The Government seems very rightly concerned about balancing the public safety with the rights of the people to live their lives and reopening the economy. By background,...

When panic over the acceleration of Covid-19 contagions erupted in late February, the dilemma between saving lives or jobs was resolved in favour of lives without further hesitation. There was no way to preserve jobs, as long as the runaway pandemic ...

Dear Sir, The dentist Ronda James wrote an excellent Letter to the Editor entitled “Health plan grandstanding” published on Tuesday, which, among other things, made a connection between the coronavirus crisis and the proposed healthcare reforms advoc...

It has been just a month since America went into pandemic lockdown and exposed our inequities so starkly. In a single day of reporting, I talked to an executive dad who has been loving telecommuting and that he has had dinner with his family every ni...

Dear Sir, Let me introduce you to Bermuda’s new status quo — our public education. For context, I refer you to the year 2013, when our public schools’ mathematics and science results had a very poor IGCSE showing, with only 19 per cent of students g...

“Lord, am I worthy for you to enter under my roof?” In a previous column, I talked about what we commonly call karma or reaping what we sow. Today, I want to introduce a parallel subject of “worthiness”. Too often as individuals and society, we act ...

As parents, grandparents and students, we must work collectively to ensure that we have a positive outcome during these challenging times. We all must make a contribution to ensure that the delivery of education remains as seamless as possible and th...

There is a lot of truth in the phrase “you reap what you sow”. We may not want to look at it, but in some ways, it’s like trying to run from one’s own shadow, which inevitably must follow. I have learnt to embrace our human imperfections and also th...

Although Bermuda and the world are consumed, rightly, with the Covid-19 crisis now, it will come to an end, and at that time other problems and policy issues facing Bermuda will return. One such issue is education, and more particularly, public educ...

History repeats itself and the gory tragedies, which as tales and legends of the past, come back to truly haunt unsuspecting generations. A little more than a century ago, I lost a few of my ancestors to yellow fever, which was followed a little late...