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On March 2, 1955 — 65 years ago to the day — 15 year-old Claudette Colvin, an honour student at Booker T Washington High School in Montgomery, Alabama was travelling on a bus when she and group of other blacks were ordered by the bus driver to move f...

Most fathers are not shirking their relationship, their responsibilities, nor are they emotionally and mentally abusing their children. It is evident that most of our society suffers from the misguided misconceptions that lead to negativity towards f...

February 21 was the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X or El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Two days before his death, in 1965, the photographer Gordon Parks interviewed him. Malcolm’s words follow: “Listening to various African leaders awakened ...

Although opinion polls currently put President Donald Trump’s approval among black voters at between 20 and 30 per cent, most experts doubt that anything like that proportion of the black vote will go to Trump on Election Day. Yes, strange things hap...

The following represents the key points as delivered by the author at the annual meeting of the Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families The training committee of the IAC has brought forward a theme for the year that is near and dear to all ...

Major climatic shifts have long been a feature of human society. But the scientific evidence overwhelmingly points to man-made rather than cyclical causes of contemporary climate change. And with those changes, we have seen nearly annual rises in glo...

Joseph Henry Thomas made a major contribution to education and to the formation of friendly societies in Bermuda in the years after emancipation. He was head teacher of the Lane School, the first chairman of the Berkeley Educational Society and helpe...

Before the Progressive Labour Party first came to power in 1998, the author was moved to research alternatives to the Westminster system of government. Once the fledgeling One Bermuda Alliance seized control in December 2012, with promised political ...

An open letter to the Premier. I was among the many hundreds of Bermuda’s younger generation to listen intently to your question-and-answer session last night to address the youth in Bermuda about the path forward for our country. I must say I though...

Mr Premier, I implore you to take your Brexit Committee seriously. In Britain this week, the Prime Minister’s special political adviser, Dominic Cummings, hired a 27-year-old adviser called Andrew Subisky. Within 48 hours, Mr Subisky had quit, owing ...