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“A leader is a someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improves the system the live under” — Sam Houston In the run-up to the last General Election, I was asked by Mike Sharpe what was my greatest fear. I expressed that my grea...

A government backbencher pledged to work for unity and equality in his maiden speech in the House of Assembly. Jaché Adams, who was elected in Pembroke West in the General Election, highlighted Bermuda’s long history of racial inequality that was bol...

Many persons were of the opinion that David Burt's slight against the Governor over the assent of the Cannabis legislation was a prelude to the long-held dream, if not commitment, of the Progressive Labour Party to lead the country to independence. ...

It is an issue that comes up from time to time, and that is the question of whether Bermuda is overrepresented with 36 MPs and 11 senators. It came up again recently, but you may have missed it. It was buried in the Opposition’s Budget Reply. It was ...

“See the hypocrites, dem a galang deh” – B ob Marley It is always amusing to hear persons or organisations expose a degree of hypocrisy between what they say versus what they actually do. After the October 2020 General Election, and with a ch...

Can I make the assessment such as that made with the former United Bermuda Party that suggests that we are now at the end of another socio-political life cycle? It was very easy to see that the UBP had run its course and that its time was up with th...

The Progressive Labour Party discovered this week that even a landslide General Election victory does not give a government a blank cheque to do whatever it wants. While the PLP was quick to frame the defeat of the Cannabis Licensing Act in the Senat...

A controversial law to legalise cannabis will be sent back to the House of Assembly after Senators voted against the bill yesterday afternoon. The Cannabis Licensing Act, which sets out a regulatory framework for growing, selling, and using the drug,...

Dear Sir, In February 2017, almost four years ago to the day, the MP Derrick Burgess exclaimed that “the OBA are trying to distort the minds of people who don’t know any better”. At that time, I thought that the remark was in fact quite disparaging, ...

I recall many years ago working with Eva Robinson and W.E. Rudolph Joell, who ran several times unsuccessfully for mayor. We had a "back of town" committee back in the Seventies. Of course, the issues then were what was deemed as unequal treatment of...

The House of Assembly on February 19 passed the Progressive Labour Party’s new Cannabis Licensing Bill, which now heads to Senate for debate tomorrow. Let me offer a few thoughts… The reason for the One Bermuda Alliance’s opposition to the Bill is t...

One of the best descriptions that I ever came across on the challenge of writing a column came from Pulitzer prize winning columnist Russell Baker of New York Times fame : it is like having to perform ballet in a telephone booth, he wrote.. The tende...