With attention focused on the uproar caused by the death of George Floyd in the United States and the continued Covid-19 crisis, many may have missed the mini-Cabinet shuffle that took place last week.
In normal times, this would have received more a...
DATE: Jun 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
Scylla and Charybdis were monsters in Greek mythology — one a whirlpool and the other a six-headed creature — situated on either side of a narrow channel. If mariners avoided one danger, they were certain to be caught and destroyed by the other, and ...
DATE: May 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
Has anyone noticed that no one to date has come forward with an economic recovery plan? Please note, we are not saying there have not been any efforts of relief at all, or that there is no attempt to mitigate the Covid-19 effects on the economy, but ...
It is timely and right, with World Press Freedom Day having been internationally recognised yesterday, that we remind Bermuda of the significance of independent media and their value to society — especially amid the scourge of the coronavirus pandemi...
DATE: May 04, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
A Bermudian piano teacher who married Ugandan royalty has died.
Ada Nyabongo was just three days short of her 94th birthday when she died on March 26.
Born in Bermuda to Harold and Naomi Paynter, but brought up in Brooklyn, New York, Dr Nyabongo earn...
Frances-Anne Solomon did not know Ulric Cross’s story but.....the request to make a film about him came from her mother.
And so she started on a quest which ultimately led to Hero. It opens the Bermuda International Film Festival on March 20.
“The st...
The Premier has denied that the Government wanted to clip the wings of the island’s tourism authority.
He was speaking after Kevin Dallas, the Bermuda Tourism Authority chief, stood down last month just after Zane DeSilva, the tourism minister, warne...
DATE: Mar 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Tourism | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
An Opposition politician claimed that the “wheels are off” the island’s tourism organisation after its chief executive quit the job.
Leah Scott added that the results produced by the Bermuda Tourism Authority proved Kevin Dallas had the expertise to ...
The chief executive of the Bermuda Tourism Authority is to quit the job tomorrow, it was announced yesterday.
Kevin Dallas will step down after three years in the post — over which the island notched up record numbers of visitors.
However, the move w...
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 ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Glenn Fubler
