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After listening to both sides of the House of Assembly on the Throne Speech, it becomes clear that there are polar opposites operating at two extremes of the political spectrum. Take the issue of sovereignty. The PLP basically said the people are rea...

The beginning of the Westminster system dates back to the Magna Carta, which was a document created in 1215 that put a limit and check on the powers allowed to the monarch. Before the Magna Carta, the monarchs had absolute reign over all their subjec...

Carlyle Corbin, the author of the Options for Sovereignty report, cannot be said to be an impartial or benign scholar of sovereignty, given he is himself an advocate of self-determination. It is OK to be an advocate and, perhaps, that is even a noble...

Anyone expecting an overarching plan to dramatically improve Bermuda’s moribund economy while containing the rise in the cost of living will have been disappointed in the Throne Speech yesterday. The Government’s lack of ambition may actually be righ...

We live in a world that is increasingly placing more and more focus on hyper-independence and moving farther away from community-based solutions. We see it everywhere from Kylie Jenner being labelled a “self-made” billionaire, to the plethora of self...

The Parliament of Westminister in London is considered “the mother of all parliaments”. For more than 900 years, laws have been passed inside those chambers that governed not only how England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland were run, but the entirety of...

Dear Sir, I note the comments of Philip “Brave" Davis, the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, as reported in yesterday's Royal Gazette (October 21, 2022). He states that ”there’s a universal right for a person to determine his or her own destiny both ind...

Here in Bermuda, the war that has been waged by Russia against Ukraine since February 24, 2022, and related events such as fundraisers were initially covered quite well. However, as the war dragged on for weeks and then months, current news, which is...

In the late 1940s, students from around the Caribbean and North Atlantic attended university in London. These persons included Errol Barrow, of Barbados, Eugenia Charles, of Dominica, Michael Manley, of Jamaica, Lynden Pindling, of the Bahamas, and L...

Dear Sir, The Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Philip Davis, is quoted in today’s Royal Gazette (October 21, 2022) as saying: “I think there’s a universal right for a person to determine his or her own destiny both individually and collectively, not in...