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Many years ago while a student at Purvis Primary School, my class learnt a song about Bermuda, of which the lyrics are: “Out in the ocean, so far away. There’s an island so pretty, where sweet breezes play. A dream land they call it, where dreams com...

As an outsider and vicarious participant in American politics, the 2016 election unleashed in me a plethora of foreboding senses. For persons such as me, we will feel it because United States politics is the politics of the world in which we are jus...

My main new year’s resolution for 2017 is pretty much the same as always: stop eating Christmas cookies, cut back on the drinking and get back to the gym. This resolve tends to stick for much of the year — only during the next holiday season does eve...

I was devastated by the news of Carrie Fisher’s passing. Fisher was so many things: a writer, an actor, a script doctor, an author and one of the funniest women out there. She spoke frankly about her struggle with drugs and mental illness, letting pe...

Leah Scott wrote an appealing op-ed about the threat of civil protest undermining the integrity of Parliament and its ability to be seen to effectively govern. Her words were meant as a deterrent for protesters to take seriously what their act of blo...

Dear Eron, Thank you for your e-mail. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, and I respect your need to share what was in your heart with me and others. I actually do care what people think about me; that’s just part of being human. How...

Economists like to tell a possibly apocryphal story about Milton Friedman. The prophet of free markets, visiting an Asian country in the 1960s, witnessed a public-works project that had people making a road with picks and shovels. When he asked why t...

Dear MP Leah Scott, I had the opportunity to read your recent article published in The Royal Gazette entitled “Resolution and conversation have to be a part of the bigger picture”. It requires mental gymnastics of Olympic proportion when one attempt...

How much is a child’s future success determined by innate intelligence? Economist James Heckman says it is not what people think. He likes to ask educated non-scientists — especially politicians and policymakers — how much of the difference between p...

No one would have been surprised that the Progressive Labour Party retained its seat in Constituency 26. Warwick South Central is a PLP stronghold and a prized seat that has played host to two PLP leaders, one as premier. However, the margin of victo...