Log In

V.S. Naipaul, our phenomenal West Indian son, has resigned leaving behind a substantial space in our society, which we can only hope would one day be filled again. The passages detailing his passing have been marked with sadness on all sides of the d...

The recommendation to implement a minimum wage and establish a Wage Commission to determine a living-wage standard is a significant step in the right direction. These interventions in our society will undoubtedly improve the lives of many workers in...

Donald Trump and I used to talk a lot about Omarosa Manigault Newman. The future president was fascinated by her. He was fascinated by her self-absorption and nastiness, fascinated by her fleeting star power and fascinated by her being publicly recog...

There is nothing wrong with being in style or doing what’s popular or fashionable, but there are some areas in life where it truly has no value or one could say it becomes pretentious. There are some behaviours and etiquettes that have a show of purp...

When I saw Beyoncé on the cover of Vogue’s September issue, a different excellent black woman came to mind. “The times, they are a-changin’,” Nina Simone sang in 1969. The song was written by Bob Dylan, but no one sang it so well as Simone. The image...

In commemoration of International Youth Day tomorrow, the Bermuda Public Services Union joins our brothers and sisters around the world to recognise this year’s theme: “Safe Spaces for Youth”. On this occasion, the BPSU is heeding the call from our g...

For 17 years, I worked in New York as a journalist or, as Donald Trump might characterise it, “an enemy of the people”. Delegitimising the media is an authoritarian’s signature, and Trump does it intentionally with this kind of malicious, dangerous l...

Fifty-one years ago, Willie Horton drove towards the smoke. His Detroit Tigers team-mates went home, as they were advised, and stayed away from the rioting. Horton couldn’t. His city was burning. He didn’t even change out of his uniform. Now 75, he p...

New scientific research backs up what any visitor to Bermuda’s Dolphin Quest could tell you: the dolphin inhabitants enjoy interacting with humans as much as we enjoy playing with them. The study, published this summer in the journal Applied Animal ...

Well, isn’t that rich? No pun intended. Nathan Kowalski, reported financial expert at Anchor Investment Management, has fired the first salvo against minimum wages in stating “a lot of work needs to be done”. Make no mistake about it, he is in code l...