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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...

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...

“Feel the needs of others more than your own” — Emperor Haile Selassie On Wednesday, July 19, 2017, I lay awake in my bed attempting to contemplate the fullness of the day before. A day that started with heavy rain, followed by a rising sun, which t...

To say I enjoy reading would be an understatement. A large part of my day involves reading — research reports, industry trade articles, investing blogs and a smattering of geopolitical content. I also try to read anywhere from 24 to 30 books a year....

Well ... school’s out and the children practically made a bonfire out of their uniform in celebration. We were barely out of the school gates before the shoes came off and the hair came down. I was shown approximately ten thousand bits of artwork wh...

Last Friday, the Minister of Education, Diallo Rabain, made a monumental statement in Parliament. “Mr Speaker, it gives me great pleasure today to rise and give notice of the renewal of the relationship between the Bermudian people and The University...

When a child arrives in our world as a beautiful, precious new life to be celebrated, as much as we derive happiness from our perception that their future life will be a great success, that is not always the case. Children are the future promise of ...

Democracy is an ideal that is not easily achievable. Unfortunately, too many people think we have achieved it already, simply because we are allowed to vote. The right to vote is only one principle and even there the right is not exercised fully. Th...

“Gratitude is a must” — Koffee Jamaican reggae artist Koffee has a global hit song, Toast, that speaks to the need for us, as human beings, to be grateful for everything that we have in life. Today, I would like to give thanks for several thi...