I had the opportunity and privilege last Friday, December 13, of getting to sit in the House of Assembly.
No, not the House of Assembly of Bermuda, but the House of Assembly for the Virgin Islands. Lo...
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the biblical t...
“Do not glad-hand me!”
Dear Tim,
Do you remember your first spoken words to me more than five years ago at the gas station on Par-la-Ville Road?
Apparently, still extremely irate at a comment I made a...
Not surprisingly, there are those of the opinion that elected persons are mortal enemies who, at no time whatsoever, share any form of human compassion among themselves.
This is far from the truth, an...
Dear Jason,
By the time you read this, the results will be in and final. No matter the results, you are always a winner to us, your family.
Why do I say this?
Well, basically, since the day you were...
“Your hair is too long; you are going to get it cut!”
“March yourself round to Angle Street!”
“It’s back-to-school time, so you know what you have to do.”
“You had your ears lifted.”
Words that every...
A friend of mine once said to me that people tend to address or attack individuals when instead they should address or attack issues. Over the past few weeks, various personal and online discussions h...
Over the past few weeks and months, many of us have heard remarks from various One Bermuda Alliance senators and MPs about state the economy.
Perhaps, the most vocal on the economic front has been ...
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s back to canvassing we go. With the unexpected passing of Walton Brown Jr, there now lies a vacancy of an elected representative in Constituency 17.
As such, a by-election has been c...
“Dready got a job to do,
And he’s got to fulfil that mission ...
Natty Dread rides again,
Through the mystics of tomorrow,
Natty Dread rides again:
Have no fear, have no sorrow”
— Bob Marley
Dear Bo ...
