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I have been treated by watching a documentary on CNN about Jerusalem and the epic struggles and six big battles it has faced over a period of 3,000 years as a city venerated by three major religions. There is known truth when it comes to the history ...

It is said that death is the great equaliser. With Covid, it may also be the great teacher, the tutor in a horrific avoidable tragedy. For months, governments, commentators and editorials have been about encouraging, nudging, educating people to get ...

On the eve of the holiday to commemorate our emancipation, the government of the day dipped its pen into the inkwell of callous arrogance and removed with one stroke 152 years of Black history. West End School in their minds should exist only in a mu...

Flora Duffy did it. She is an Olympic gold medal-winner and is indeed the best in the world as a female triathlete. I can remember her as a young child competing in short-distance races, including events such as the Front Street Mile. I remember her ...

The Olympics women's gymnastics tournament suggests that this is a sport coming to terms with its devastating recent history. Indeed, Simone Biles has been determined to make sure this is the case. The superstar was assaulted by physician Larry Nassa...

Although much of the world remains in the grip of a pandemic that has crippled economies and altered lifestyles for millions, an even greater threat looms when democracy is threatened by the politically powerful in some countries in order to secure s...

It’s Cup Match time in Bermuda! After falling victim to the pandemic last year, our beloved two-day holiday is back, albeit with a difference. There is nothing like Cup Match anywhere else in the world. Having a cricket game played on two days of his...

We are reminded that Cup Match had its genesis in the celebration of the emancipation of those formerly enslaved in Bermuda. The recent assassination of the Haitian president saw our premier reach out to Haitians, expressing sympathy during their cha...

Cup Match returns. It will not be your father’s Cup Match or that of your mother, for that matter. Instead, it will be one for the ages — thanks again to Covid-interruptus. Still it’s great that the game is back. It is, after all, the featured classi...

Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, both billionaires, went into suborbital space, the first steps in privatising space travel — hearkening back to the days of the great adventures of the mid-century. Then, too, for those who understand history, Atlantic...