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How many times have you heard the plight of a senior who often has to make a choice between paying insurance and obtaining another necessity such as food or paying for a utility bill? Health insurance costs are set to increase on November 1 this year...

“As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore!” Three days after the tragic events of 9/11, on September 14, 2001, representative Barbara Lee stood alone, facing 420 of her colleagues in the United States Congress. Lee was the only memb...

Democracy, as we know it today, began its bumpy evolution about 400 years ago. Although that is a long time, practising democracy has remained quite difficult. Some of the reasons for that are there is no universal agreement on a clear definition, an...

Leaders must be held accountable for their actions if the rule of law is to prevail. For the military, accountability derives from civilian control over our armed forces. This is the governing principle of civil-military relations; it is central to o...

Much of the world today is pondering whether the days of glowing tourism, with thousands travelling by air and sea to experience various cultures, and to enjoy meeting people from other lands will ever return. The reason for concern for tourism offi...

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has called an election that will happen in a couple of weeks, oddly in the middle of a fourth wave in the pandemic. Covid-19 is having an effect on the lives of people worldwide and contributing to their sense o...

Six years. That’s how long Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and their fellow gymnasts have been waiting for an independent criminal investigation into the cover-up of their sexual molestations by Olympic doctor Larry Nassar. Six years. For all that time, M...

In every country and culture, some terms grow organically and become a permanent part of the country’s dialogue. In Bermuda, we have many terms brought to the mainstream via the long-running Not the Um Um Show and, more recently, Bermemes. Terms such...

It has been said that there are no friends in politics, only allies who have common interests that can and do shift from time to time. In fact, as former US president Harry Truman once famously said about life in Washington (read politics): if it is ...

The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute will host the island’s first Youth Climate Summit in November. Over the course of six days, the summit will bring together students aged 13 to 22 to focus on what they can do to ensure their future is not ...