Dear Sir,
With reference to the article on July 30 under the headline “Famous: don’t forget Cup Match origins”, Sir George Somers was a senior seaman (admiral).
He died in 1611. There was no slavery ...
Dear Sir,
I am a tad confused here; or, perhaps, it’s Leah Scott whose comments are confusing.
Shall I test her comments made in Sessions House in Bermuda last Friday when she stated: “I had a client...
Dear Sir,
There was a time when the workers of Bermuda had no representation either in Parliament, the workplace or by way of any union recognition — no support at all.
I remember the days when my mot...
Dear Sir,
There has been talk in the House of Assembly that Sir George Somers was a slave owner. As a student of Bermuda history all my life, I can find no evidence whatsoever to support this.
Sir Ge...
The following is a letter from an inmate at Westgate Correctional Facility. The letter, owing to the vagaries of the Bermuda postal system, did not arrive until the day before Cup Match despite being ...
April 13, 2007
Josephine and the ST 10 is, I believe, a US navy barge. It is not thI>Lord Cochrane. She was a bucket dredge with a very different profile. Badly holed, the Josephine had to be patched ...
March 23, 2007
RECENTLY, many people have written Letters to the Editor to express their concerns about the deterioration of human rights under the current Government. Several have noted that if right...
I ALWAYS enjoy John Barritt's although given what is occurring in Bermuda's Parliament these days he should consider retitling his column . In my judgment, Barritt should be leading the United Bermuda...
BUCK Rogers was our Mr. Chips. Our own Mark Thackeray from To Sir, With Love. Buck managed to achieve that exalted status which is all too often bestowed only upon fictional characters created by Holl...
AS a Bermudian living in Boston, I read your paper on a regular basis, along with .
One of the biggest trends that I find very disturbing is the amount of hyped-up aggression that seems to be creeping...