Renee Webb

In some European countries, gay marriage is legal. In the US, the battle is being fought to allow gay marriage onto the political agenda. Even the most committed foes of gay unions would probably admit that being gay ought not to be a crime.Bermuda is a long way behind the most backward countries in the world in this area of human rights. It only created a Human Rights Commission (HRC) a few years ago, but in our racially-charged environment, it has lately become a black rights commission. The message the HRC has been sending on rights is that if it's black, it's right.

Imagine if you had an excuse for everything bad that you ever did. Imagine a society in which half the people had the same excuse. Would you rather be in the group with the excuse that exempted them from the

The greatest achievement of our first experience of a Progressive Labour Party (PLP) government was supposed to be the $68 million construction of a new secondary school, the Berkeley Institute.We already have a Berkeley Institute, which has produced almost the entire black professional cadre that runs the Civil Service and the government. Building a new school a few hundred yards up the road from the first one was considered important by the new government.

Given the state of our economy, the terminal collapse of our tourism industry, and the wave of secrecy that now surrounds much of our official business, observers of the Bermuda political scene can make out few grounds for confidence.The mood

Renee Webb vs. Emerald Financial Ltd. - Bermuda Supreme Court