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On August 14, a magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck Haiti's southern peninsula. Coming a month after the assassination of the President and amid a severe coronavirus surge, the quake was the latest blow to the Caribbean nation. Haiti has still not fully ...

Over the past week, the Caribbean region has lost two of its foremost statesmen. Similar in age and political era. Both were part of the political maturation of their respective islands, closely involved in the leadership that took their countries fr...

The recent assassination of the Haitian president Jovenel Moïse has sent shock waves throughout the Western hemisphere. Haiti, which is known as the first of the enslaved colonies to break free and declare independence, has long suffered from authori...

In the 1950s, two young girls from the island of Tortola in the Virgin Islands sat next to each other in primary school and in high school. One young girl from the east end of the island; the other from the central mountains of the island. Rocky ...

Bermuda has lived for decades with the spectre of foreign governments shattering the economy with the stroke of a pen. Changing a few words in a tax code could cause immeasurable harm to international businesses, which has as one of its cornerstones...

Naomi Osaka, winner of four grand-slam tennis tournaments, has declared her independence and in doing so is exhibiting interdependence – a refined empathy for others. Osaka took a stand to preserve healthy boundaries when she declared that for the 2...

The period of the 1940s through to the early 1960s saw tremendous movements in Africa inspired by many new activists such as Kwame Nkrumah, of Ghana, Patrice Lamumba, of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Jomo Kenyatta, of Kenya, to name a few. Th...

Human societies undergo shifts from time to time; for the better or the worse. The sources of those shifts are never fully understood — shrouded in some mystery. In the spring of 1981, during a dispute that mushroomed into a general strike, there...

This is not intended as an anti-political party opinion, as much as it is intended to cause reflection and hopefully develop a sense of accountability for the truth of the effects of party politics on Bermuda. It has been stated and even repeated tha...

The 1960s saw real and explosive change in Bermuda. Given the international background, change abounded globally. In Africa, the Caribbean, and through civil rights and other movements in the United States, a potent environment was established. On r...