The recent Employment Survey and the recent stories in The Royal Gazette on income disparities between blacks and whites in Bermuda points up the issue that remains at the heart of the Island's racial divide.
That the income gap remains wide between ...
I hear many people talking about the UBP "Break up". I don't believe it has been a break up but dissolution. A "break up" implies that there were irreconcilable differences between various groups within the party. Dissolution suggests that whereas th...
Gazette did its job
September 24, 2009
Dear Sir,
The PLP works very hard to position The Royal Gazette as being the media wing of the UBP. Perversely, the UBP used to mete out the same disdain. This allows the parties to pretend that any critical re...
A new Government scheme is making going green a little less expensive.
The Solar Photovoltaic Rebate Initiative, which launched yesterday, will offer residents a rebate of up to $5,000 for the instillation of solar panels.
Rebates are offered at $1 p...
Far from dampening play, Saturday morning's showers brought scores of parents and youngsters out of the rain and into the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art for arts and crafts with a watery – or more precisely, maritime – theme.
The first of the muse...
The Chamber of Commerce believes Government should compare like-to-like in its statistics highlighting wage disparity between the races.
Chamber president Stephen Todd said it was hard to get a clear picture of the facts.
He said Government statistic...
The perception that race is behind the disparity in earnings between black and white Bermudians is put forward for "political and visceral reasons", the head of the Bermuda Employers' Council said yesterday.
BEC executive director Martin Law said he ...
Throughout 2008 the Bermuda Employers Council commissioned and developed a statistical-based study of employment trends in Bermuda, complete with analysis and comment; the first of its kind in Bermuda. The data and comment was shared widely with Gove...
"…We have to want it…Bermudians have to want equality." The late Julian Hall, The Big Conversation Documentary
I guess that you could call the following a cautionary tale. Cautionary, because it illustrates how difficult it has been to actually achie...
The late David Critchley, a senior civil servant for many years, once compared the Department of Education to the Kremlin.
A more apt comparison these days might be with the Cretan Labyrinth from Greek mythology. In the middle of the Labyrinth reside...
