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On Thanksgiving Day, Donald Trump held a video press conference from his resort in Florida. Unsurprisingly, he was asked why he continues to stand up for Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, even though the Central Intelligence Agency bel...

As far back as 1968, the Progressive Labour Party platform called for comprehensive schools or neighbourhood schools. The failure of Bermuda to move in that direction over the past 60 years is a mark of the PLP’s failure to pursue its stated goal of ...

On Friday in the House of Assembly, the Minister of Public Works, Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, made a statement that was, in my view, an unparliamentary personal attack. He followed this up with interviews to the broadcast media that were simply u...

Jamal Khashoggi was a complex man, but to us, his daughters, he was simply “Dad”. Our family has always been proud of his work, and we understood the awe and grandeur with which some people viewed him. But in our lives he was just “Baba” — a loving m...

We are now more than two weeks into a new sanctions regime on Iran, and it will be a long time before it ends. The Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has listed 12 conditions that Iran needs to meet before that happens. They include a permanent cessati...

The end of the month is the deadline for submissions for comments on the integrated resource plan for Bermuda’s energy future. This step is a direct result of the Electricity Act 2016, which became operative in October 2016 and legislated the require...

While there are still some people who do not believe climate change is caused by human activity, very few will deny that the climate is changing and that we must adapt to the new threats we face as a result. Upper-ocean temperature, which is fuel fo...

As we have learnt in Charlottesville, Pittsburgh and Orlando, hate is not about geography. The Clark brothers grew up in a dynamic and diverse neighbourhood in the nation’s capital, on a street with American flags and rainbow pride flags, pick-up tru...

Bermuda is a small place, and I think that we all have cabin fever. But if one is discouraged from speaking freely because of how small the population is, and how we all know one another, can one still argue that we have free speech? It is difficult ...

As I do periodically with regard to technical matters concerning the future and economic wellbeing of the island, I was recently discussing with my good friend, Mike Murphy, an issue that affects every one of us: Bermuda’s future energy policies. Whe...