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We as a country are being given the opportunity to determine, by way of a referendum, if we support: 1, Same-sex civil unions 2, Same-sex marriage Thirty years ago in Parliament, I did not support the Gay Rights Bill. It was a decision made with my h...

“This was an act of terror and an act of hate,” President Barack Obama said, addressing the nation after Sunday morning’s deadly shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Twenty-nine-year-old Omar Mateen, armed with an AR15 and a handgun, killed 50...

One year after celebrating the most joyous pride month in American history with the Supreme Court ruling that legalised same-sex marriage, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, and the nation as a whole are now in mourning. Fifty peo...

A little more than a year-and-a-half ago, a reporter asked me and other political and community leaders whether the abatement, or lull, in gun violence in Bermuda then signalled that that horrific trend had come to its long overdue end. I essentially...

Christopher Famous Recently, the hard-working staff at the Parliamentary Registry released an updated voters list to facilitate the upcoming referendum on same-sex marriage to be held on June 23. Interestingly, there has been an upward movement of th...

Muhammad Ali, the charismatic three-times heavyweight boxing champion of the world, who declared himself “the greatest” and proved it with his fists, the force of his personality and his magnetic charisma, and who transcended the world of sports to b...

When my grandmother was born in Philadelphia in 1920, women could not vote. Her opinion about her country and the people who governed it mattered less — or, frankly, not at all — than the men around her. Even after the ratification of the 19th Amendm...

The Soviet Union I left behind was a dictatorship, but the workplace was a democracy; America may be free but the workplace is a dictatorship,” Len Erlikh said after I hired him in 1986 at First Boston — now Credit Suisse First Boston. Being of the J...

I have two young boys. My husband and I are trying to raise them to be good, kind people. I bet Brock Turner’s parents thought they were doing — had done — the same. But reading Turner’s father’s letter asking for leniency from the judge who sentence...

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam, while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I am not going 10,000...