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In his famous address at the 1963 March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr drew a direct line between the struggle for racial equality and the nation's efforts to realise democracy. “When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words ...

Deborah Brown, mother of OBA MP Nandi Outerbridge: “I saw the protesters standing in the front lines shoving Nandi in the chest with their hands and arms … They were shoving her and preventing her from walking through the crowd and towards the ga...

For years, one of my favourite things about serving in Congress was getting the opportunity to interact with my constituents. I loved chatting with them about our beloved state of Arizona and the policies I was fighting for. Even when we disagreed, w...

A “safe space” at the heart of Hamilton has been dedicated to commemorate the landmark Theatre Boycott of 1959. The new Freedom Square was also unveiled yesterday in tribute to other key moments where Hamilton hosted the island’s push for social just...

Journalists around the world, and that includes Bermuda, are these days challenged in trying to keep truth out front as their professional ethics demand. Misinformation flowing like a tidal wave via a maze of electronic systems crowding the airwaves ...

Opposition senator Marcus Jones has criticised government senators for failing to answer questions relating to the 2021-22 Budget. Speaking in the Senate on Wednesday, Mr Jones said that the public had a right to hear a fulsome debate on how their mo...

Much of the world is witnessing struggles in which powerful leaders are more concerned about absolute control than permitting true democracy to prevail. This really gives power to the people on crucial decisions that affect their daily lives. When d...

There is a hell of a debate going now in the United States about the autocratic style of leadership that Donald Trump seems to prefer. The word there is that “he is destroying our democracy, he is taking away the very sense of who we are”. Beyond th...

This has become a small world, made even smaller by massive communications systems producing streams of positive and negative signals that impact life across the planet. I have heard some folks express the view that we are living in an age when truth...

Democracy is an ideal that is not easily achievable. Unfortunately, too many people think we have achieved it already, simply because we are allowed to vote. The right to vote is only one principle and even there the right is not exercised fully. Th...

A global human rights organisation has recommended making Bermuda’s public access to information law more robust, including by allowing some Cabinet papers to be disclosed and by lifting the “veil of secrecy over the work of the Minister of Finance”....

Dear Sir, I have discovered over the years that one of the biggest challenges of my life was trying to define who or what I am. There was a time when I was defined as a British subject, since which that definition has now changed to British Overseas ...