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Bermuda’s human rights laws need updating to reflect social change, according to a civil liberties watchdog. Tawana Tannock, chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission, said: “Upholding the integrity of the Human Rights Act underpinned our engagement ...

With the Premier in London meeting with the UK Overseas Territories Association, this may be an appropriate moment to reflect on Bermuda’s present relationship with Britain. There are times when Bermuda’s premier, or finance minister, needs to polite...

Early last month, I was thanked by two different women for being the advocate for the rights of women and children. In the first scenario, a Bermudian woman had children born abroad with a foreigner. Bermuda law at the time did not allow her children...

Sexism exists in every walk of life and must be tackled across the whole of society, not just the political arena, it was claimed yesterday. Davida Morris, a former Progressive Labour Party senator, said it was important to tackle the problem as earl...

The Women’s Resource Centre is not at all surprised by the recent conversational frenzy around recent comments made by national security minister Wayne Caines. This is what happens. There is an outcry around an incident and as soon as the dust settle...

Dear Sir, Please allow me the space to share my views on your recent article published on Tuesday, August 7, 2018, titled “Governor researches case of jailed pastor”. The article was very interesting to me, as it brought to life two important issues,...

Applicants fear retaliation if they make Public Access to Information requests, the Information Commissioner has warned. Gitanjali Gutierrez added there was a need for a “cultural shift” so that more people questioned public authorities rather than d...

Bermuda remembered Nelson Mandela last night on what would have been his 100th birthday. Glenn Fubler, founder of Imagine Bermuda, said the event to mark the birthday of the South African freedom fighter and first democratically elected president of ...

The South Carolina city of Charleston’s two-page apology for enslaving black people and terrorising and treating them as second-class citizens during Jim Crow, ought to be crumpled up and tossed into the trash. Supporters have cheered the city counci...

John Rankin has had a pretty rough time of it from the moment he was sworn in as Governor of Bermuda — a mere ten days after civil unrest, literally on the streets of Parliament. Starting from the fallout of December 2, 2016, a date that will be infa...

Eighteen influential Iranian women living in the West, published an open letter to Fifa on Friday calling on the organisation that governs international football to help put an end to a decades-old ban on women attending male sporting events in Iran....

The Human Rights Commission said the Bermuda Government can cater for both the rights of the gay community and those with competing views in the church. The HRC gave its backing to the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse the ban on same-sex marriage,...