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On March 2, 1955 — 65 years ago to the day — 15 year-old Claudette Colvin, an honour student at Booker T Washington High School in Montgomery, Alabama was travelling on a bus when she and group of other blacks were ordered by the bus driver to move f...

On January 23, the International Court of Justice issued a unanimous ruling that ordered Myanmar to “take all measures within its power” to protect its ethnic minority Rohingya population from genocide. The case — against which Myanmar’s civilian lea...

A Bermudian woman is to be part of an annual event honouring an American civil rights icon next week. Cindy Trimm will provide the opening prayer at the Martin Luther King Jr Annual Commemorative Service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, in Atlanta, Georg...

We all know the carol Silent Night. As we head into the holidays, it is important to know that you truly do have a right to remain silent. As the festive season comes into full swing, it is inevitable that there will be an increase in driving-relate...

On October 29, a diverse group of 15 members of the Planning Team gathered at the Department of Workforce Development. This collaborative group, under honorary co-chairmen Joan Dillas-Wright and Dennis Lister, were continuing a process that emerged o...

Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez formally announced the recipients of the Information Commissioner’s Award 2019 for Information Officers. This is the first year for the Information Commissioner’s Award, which will be presented annually du...

Victims of violent crime are finally getting their claims for compensation heard by a government board which has been criticised for its “serious backlog” of cases. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board met on September 11 when members heard appli...

In announcing plans for a major re-examination of human rights in foreign policy, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote in the Wall Street Journal that too many people have pursued an expansionist definition, accepting “new categories of rights,” “ad ...

The recent decision by John Rankin, the Governor — at the request of David Burt, the Premier — to give the Reverend Charles Vinton Monk a full pardon for his conviction for criminal libel rights an historic wrong and sets an important precedent for t...

The Premier tabled a posthumous pardon for a pastor jailed after he exposed horrific work conditions for West Indian workers at the former Royal Naval Dockyard more than 100 years ago. David Burt said John Rankin, the Governor, had granted the “full ...

A pastor jailed more than a hundred years ago after he wrote about the unfair treatment of Jamaican workers in Bermuda was granted a posthumous pardon by the Governor yesterday. Government House confirmed that John Rankin had pardoned the Reverend Ch...

In the United States, we do not have a justice system, we have a legal system. That system has been designed to follow the letter of the law, not the spirit of fairness. Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us serves as a powerful reminder of this fact. The ...