The images of burning buildings, youths hurling improvised missiles and riot clad police officers attempting to restore order could have come from any number of Middle East countries a few months ago....
This is an excerpt from Walton Brown’s book on Bermuda’s political history “Bermuda and the Struggle for Reform: Race, Politics and Ideology, 1944-1998.” It will be available on August 10.
Although t...
Last week during the Motion to Adjourn in Parliament, MPs took the occasion to reflect on the PLP record. No doubt this will continue until the House rises for the summer recess and as political parti...
Former Senate President Alf Oughton’s important contribution to healthcare reform has set the template for our present discussions. And Health Minister Zane DeSilva and Bermuda Health Council CEO Dr J...
In 1995, while campaigning for a “yes” vote in the Independence referendum, I began receiving telephone calls from an anonymous, raspy-voiced man, who was expressing his opposition to my efforts. This...
The decision by then Premier Ewart Brown to provide refuge to four Guantánamo detainees in Bermuda in June 2009 continues to vex residents some two years after the fact. We now know that the American ...
Whenever a politician raises the notion of national Independence for Bermuda there is a predictable flow of negative commentary. Even though Independence is the natural political framework for countri...
From time to time, political pundits and party leaders raise the spectre of restructuring aspects of Bermuda’s electoral system. While almost always presented as being in the “national” interest there...
Today’s planned rally on the steps of City Hall marks an important symbolic step forward for the rights of gay people in Bermuda. Ms Krystl Assan’s recent experience at a local guest house has pushed ...
Bermuda’s way out of this economic morass must be by way of a strong and genuine partnership between government and business. While government provides the framework and infrastructure for business to...
