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Walking the streets of Hamilton at lunchtime, past the makeshift, sidewalk shanty town-like homes of Bermuda’s homeless that are sadly multiplying over time, I have a dream ... Walking past the shameless state of the existing shelter for the homeles...

Over the many years that I have been writing, I have tried always to be honest and impartial, which meant at times suppressing my own self-interest and avoidance of reacting to knowledge of continuing injustices, particularly when levelled at me. Oft...

Although Bermuda’s Parliament held its first session in 1620, it is only relatively recently that it has enjoyed proper representative democracy. The island’s first General Election held on the basis of universal adult suffrage and equal voting took ...

As we approach this opportunity to let our candidates know what is important to families, the Coalition for the Protection of Children has shared its 2017 Legislative and Policy Agenda. These 36 recommendations reflect what we hope all candidates wil...

Two-and-a-half years ago, before sexual harassment started backfiring against Silicon Valley venture capitalists, a woman named Trae Vassallo testified in a gender-discrimination case that had been brought against the storied firm of Kleiner Perkins ...

In an article I wrote titled “Injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere”, published February 20, I cautioned about government agencies that are funded by taxpayer dollars, and their abusive use against private citizens. The recent ruling of Chie...

On July 4, 1776, church bells rang out across Philadelphia. The Continental Congress had approved a Declaration of Independence to inform the world that the goal of the colonial revolt, which had begun more than a year earlier, was not mere autonomy ...

By now, most have seen the jarring dash cam video of police officer Jeronimo Yanez shooting Philando Castile as Castile calmly reached for his licence. Just as shocking, a jury acquitted Yanez. The verdict, in the eyes of many, was just one more piec...

Cast your mind back to the week of the “Pathway to Status” Bill and resulting “Occupy the Hill” experience in 2016. During the course of a long week, the country was able to witness and listen to, or read about, four of the primary holders of power i...

“When I came here a number of years ago, Bermuda was a place where someone with ambition and without a college education could get a job in the hotel industry or in the trades and earn a middle-class standard of living. Those days are over now.” — Sh...