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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...

July is Minority Mental Health Month, established to spotlight the flawed diagnosis of mental illness among minorities. Black men, for example, are nearly six times as likely to be given schizophrenia diagnosis as white men. That problem is compounde...

Surprise! Fire — short for Financial Independence, Retire Early, is not about us anxious-about-retiring oldsters. Nor is Fire about Fireworks, but a new millennial finance movement, generating a heightened global surge of interest (and dedicated fol...

Almost every parent I’ve ever met has been united by some common themes: total exhaustion, addiction to caffeine, wide-eyed bewilderment (how can something so small poop so much?). Yet, even if we’re hanging on to our sanity by a thread, it’s a golde...

That July 18 was the 101st birthday of Nelson Mandela made it very appropriate to hold the prize presentation for the quiz of the 60th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott. This took place at One Communications’ Church Street venue, just across the st...