Freddie On MayDay

Below is the address given by the then Shadow Labour & Home Affairs Minister, the late Freddie Wade, given at the first celebration of Labour Day in 1982.
My fellow workers of Bermuda, it is indeed a special pleasure for me to bring you the celebration of Bermuda’s first Labour Day Holiday.
I do so with special [...]

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Zimbabwe Today

I think most readers of the news are aware of the current situation in Zimbabwe today. Indeed, there has been a long dialogue over at Bermuda Sucks on just this topic. On a negative note there are some who, in their opposition to the PLP, make reactionary, irresponsible and extremely superficial comparisons of [...]

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Mouseland – Courtesy of A Radical in Bermuda

I was just taking some time to read over comrade Rowland’s site, and came across this gem. I remember it well from my time studying in Canada, especially with the 1998 formation and organisation of the NDP Socialist Caucus.
As I wrote in the comments section of his site, this story is of [...]

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Bermudian Politics in Transition, Chapter Two, Excerpts

Chapter Two is mostly an analysis of the 1976 election, and shifting voting tendencies. Some highlights from it are the conclusion that:
(p.40) …the growth of PLP support comes from many sources – Blacks under 25, Blacks who previously did not vote, Blacks converted from UBP or split-ticket voting, a marginal White element who have [...]

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Excerpts from ‘Bdian Politics in Transition’ by Frank Manning, Ch. One

I was going through one of my old notebooks and came across some excerpts I’ld copied from the book ‘Bermudian Politics in Transition; Race, Voting and Public Opinion’ written by Professor Frank E. Manning, published in 1978. This work was written in the aftermath of the 1976 election, and is an in-depth analysis of [...]

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‘A Vocal Critic’

Well, that was interesting.
Over lunch a co-worker came up to me and said he didn’t know I had a blog, and that he’d just found out from the paper. Naturally taken aback I asked him what he meant about reading about the blog in the paper today. He gave me a [...]

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Aime Cesaire, 1913-2008

It is with great sadness that I recieved the news that the great Martinican poet/writer Aime Cesaire has passed away at the age of 94.
I have only read some of his works, most of his writings being in French, a language I am not fluent in. I have read parts of his ‘Retrun to [...]

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A Frank Discussion on Race

I’m going to try and put away the general Bdian tendency of politeness and beating around the bush and try to be as upfront as I can in my half-awake state on the current situation on race in Bda.
Alot of Whites are scared. They are scared because they beleive, adamantly, that they are under [...]

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Defining Race & Racism – Part Three, CURE’s Definitions

After reading Christian’s reply to my post early this afternoon, I took the oppurtunity to visit the Commission for Unity and Racial Equality (CURE) to find out if they had any definitions for this discussion on race and racism. I met with Dr. Sidney Gibbons, CURE’s Director, and asked him for a definition of [...]

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Defining Race and Racism – Part Two, Racism, Racialism and Prejudice

Okay, this one’s going to be a doozey.
This topic, defining what racism, racialism and prejudice mean was the original intention of this whole theme, but Part One morphed into a discussion on what it ‘Black’ and ‘White’ means in Bermuda, mostly from a auto-biographical perspective.
I see that Christian over at Politics.bm has kind of beaten [...]

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