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The heroes who made our world a better place

On the 55th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott, the US Consulate General and Americans everywhere would like to join the people of Bermuda in recognising and honouring those who acted courageously to further the cause of civil rights in Bermuda. As ...
Jul 02, 2014
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Shopkeepers in customer row are cleared by tribunal

A shopkeeping couple accused of discriminating against a foreign customer, and insulting her because of her national origin, have had their names cleared by the Human Rights Tribunal. However, part of the complaint would have stood — if it hadn’t bee...
Jul 02, 2014
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Mayor: Theatre Boycott was our Rosa Parks moment

More than 25 groups yesterday backed the official commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott that laid the ground for modern Bermuda. Lisa Reed, executive officer of the Human Rights Commission, delivered a proclamation marking the ...
Jul 01, 2014
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Students learn strong lessons about Theatre Boycott

Members of the community will come together next week to sign a proclamation heralding the significance of the 55th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott. The document is among a series of initiatives to mark more than five decades of peaceful change a...
Jun 28, 2014
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High-fives for 55th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott

The “conscious efforts of ordinary people choosing to do extraordinary things” are being celebrated this week for the anniversary of the 1959 Theatre Boycott. The landmark event against racial segregation in Bermuda is being marked with a “high-five”...
Jun 18, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Misdirected focus

June 10, 2014 Dear Sir, It remains to be still irritating that people feel it’s better to criticise Filipinos than to wonder what happened to the $300,000 that suddenly went missing? Black women mainly focused on verbally harassing Filipinos (Bermuda...
Jun 17, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Barritt recognised the divide

May 20, 2014 Dear Sir, F. John Barritt was undoubtedly a good man. There is something both sad and depressing when one reads the appeal which he made to the UBP Government in 1968 (RG May 15). He certainly did not see “old fashioned Bermuda unity” as...
May 21, 2014
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MP wants debate on ‘historic losses’ of property

Shadow Immigration and External Affairs Minister Walton Brown has proposed the creation of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the historic theft of property from Bermudians. During Friday’s sitting of the House of Assembly, Mr Brown gave notice t...
May 19, 2014
Letters to the Editor

We still lack racial and social justice

Dear Sir, ‘A great civilisation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. — William James Durant Recent events and the discussion which has followed have prompted me to reiterate my own analysis of where we, as a black ...
Feb 24, 2014
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CURB: Let grave controversy be a catalyst for healing

The desecration of historic tombstones at Tucker’s Point should be a “catalyst” for Bermuda to recognise its continued suppression of black history and start a healing process, an anti-racism group has claimed. Lynn Winfield, from Citizens Uprooting ...
Feb 12, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Tucker’s Town — an alternative view

February 1, 2014 Dear Sir, Who gave Arlene Brock the ‘mandate’ to talk about Tucker’s Town? The story once again, reiterated on the front page of The Royal Gazette, is not only basically factually wrong, more by omission, but is the usual half-truth,...
Feb 03, 2014
Letters to the Editor

We denied them both

February 2, 2014 Dear Sir, During one of Rev Martin Luther King’s speeches a gentleman standing near him repeated Martin’s question “how long? And Martin went on in his speech saying “not long”. “Not” long is a relative terminology, as that was 50 ye...
Feb 03, 2014
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