The Continental Society’s next fundraising event later this month should be a sure bet.
Casino Royale — a night of gambling, games and entertainment at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute — is aiming to raise funds for the charity’s educatio...
A controversial contract with an overseas consultancy, which was approved by Cabinet during Ewart Brown’s tenure as Premier and Minister of Tourism, came under the spotlight yesterday at the Commission of Inquiry.
The $1.7 million deal with Atlanta-b...
DATE: Oct 05, 2016 | CATEGORY: Event | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
William S. Zuill, an author and avid historian who became the first director of the Bermuda National Trust as well as serving for three years as editor of The Royal Gazette, has died at the age of 86.
Mr Zuill’s reporting career started in the early ...
DATE: Oct 05, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Gross domestic product figures show an improving economy. The Bermuda Tourism Authority is reporting strong numbers. Very good news for Bermuda. Are we out of the woods yet? Not by a long shot. In fact, in many ways, I am as concerned about Bermuda’s...
This poem was written after I observed that a front-page newspaper story about a black Bermudian male was printed on the same day his sibling’s funeral notice — Brother Blue Collar Worker or “BCW” — finally showed up on the back pages of the newspape...
In a second exclusive extract from Border Crossing Brothas: Black Males Navigating Race, Place and Complex Space, TY-RON DOUGLAS uses poetry to make a crucial point.
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This poem was written after I observed that a front-page newspaper story about a...
“Instead of asking what’s wrong with our black males, perhaps we need to ask what’s wrong with the systems that they must survive and thrive in.”
This is the view of Ty-Ron Douglas, who grew up in Paget and now works as an assistant professor at the ...
As he embarks on a medical degree in California, Va Shon Williams hopes to become the third doctor among his siblings.
The 23-year-old from Pembroke began classes at Loma Linda University two months ago, after graduating from Alabama’s Oakwood Unive...
Ty-Ron Douglas, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri, has spent much of his adult life researching black masculinity, black family and African Diaspora Studies. And now he h...
Whatever one may think of the most efficient ways to spend $38,000, or whether such a small sum of money in the context of national spending is worth losing a job over, what is undeniable is that the Bermuda Government has made a pig’s ear of trying ...
