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Letter writer Henry Roth tackles Social Justice Bermuda over its commentary on the Israeli-Hamas war

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” — the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr Bermuda has become more polarised politically and social...

Church leaders and human rights activists yesterday paid tribute to South African churchman Desmond Tutu, a Nobel peace prize-winning anti-apartheid activist. The retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town died last Sunday in a nursing home in the cit...

A policewoman who posted an online cartoon before last year’s Black Lives Matter march will not face a criminal prosecution, the Chief Justice ruled yesterday. Mr Justice Narinder Hargun said the All Lives Splatter meme posted on Facebook and Instagr...

A Bermudian living in Armenia when a war broke out over a disputed region said that the experience reminded her of the importance of humanitarian work. Tierrai Tull, 20, spent four months in the country during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War while bala...

I remember the popularity of Fidel Castro during the 1960s. The cigar-smoking man in army fatigues who, as a charismatic leader, transformed Cuba into a communist state 90 miles from the United States at the height of the Cold War. Expressed then as ...

Dear Sir, Today’s front-page story in the newspaper (May 3, 2021) about the “Bermuda freedom car/bike rally” caught my attention. A few things bothered me. First, you failed to catch the not-so-disguised profanity on the young lady’s T-shirt. That d...

Dear Sir, I think most people would agree that the recent outbreaks of coronavirus in Bermuda were caused by a small, unvaccinated minority behaving irresponsibly, perhaps emboldened by the apparent reluctance of the authorities to enforce the rules...

A good friend encouraged me to participate in the Truth and Reconciliation Course, which I had been putting off for too long. My motivating factor for attending was that I wanted Black people to know that I care about them and that I wanted to learn ...

As a private in the Florida National Guard, Brandon Russell led a double life, carrying out exercises with his infantry team while heading a violent neo-Nazi group and reportedly recruiting like-minded troops until 2017. At his condo in Tampa, he had...

The late Walton Brown Jr had it right. The impetus for major reform and social justice for the longest time came not from within the legislature, but from without. He catalogued much of that history in his book, Bermuda And The Struggle For Reform: R...

Dear Sir, On reading today’s newspaper (January 14, 2021), my attention was drawn to a Letter to the Editor, headlined “Spot the difference”, and penned by Elspeth A. Gray, from Warwick. I respect and uphold freedom of speech, but I was stupefied whe...