The new year is likely to usher in a year of monumental change in the West, including Bermuda and the world at large; and not all will be of the feel good, cuddly variety. How could it be with Donald ...
On November 13, Carolyn Young, the wife of labour icon Kenyatta Young, who predeceased her, was laid to rest at St John’s Church in Pembroke. Sister Carolyn may not have been known to some Bermudians,...
The political scientist and theorist Francis Fukuyama in a 1989 essay once wrote that with the triumph of Western liberal values — the precursor to neoliberalism at the end of the Cold War — that that...
A little more than a year-and-a-half ago, a reporter asked me and other political and community leaders whether the abatement, or lull, in gun violence in Bermuda then signalled that that horrific tre...
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam, while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and de...
Charles Asnavour and Frank Sinatra once wrote a ballad called Young at Heart and the opening lyrics to the legendary song say that “fairy tales can come true; they can happen to you”.
Certainly the Ca...
We all know that polls are only snapshots of a certain point in time. And we also know that politicians usually say that to comfort themselves when a particularly dismal poll result proves to be unfla...
After having read the story carried by The Royal Gazette on Saturday that highlighted the more salient aspects of the recent debate as it unfolded in the House of Assembly, I decided to convey the fo...
The election last Thursday marked the day when the petals firmly came off the fading red rose that is the One Bermuda Alliance government.
This loss by its candidate, Andrew Simons, to now MP and form...
In an era where Donald Trump is asserting the privilege to be as racist as he wants to be while claiming that he is just being politically incorrect, we in Bermuda can watch the spectacle emerging to ...
