Join us in congratulating Bermuda’s 2026 King’s Birthday Honours recipients! 🇧🇲👑
✨ Ms. Elizabeth “Liz” Christopher - Member of the British Empire (MBE) – for outstanding service to law, justice, and human rights.
✨ Mr. Lionel Cann - British Empire Medal (BEM)(BEM) – for a lifetime of compassionate service in disaster relief and homelessness outreach.
✨ Mr. John Paul “JP” Skinner - King's Certificate & Badge of Honour – for his dedication to marine education and conservation.
✨ Mr. Troy Farnsworth – King's Certificate & Badge of Honour – for advancing community sport and para‑athlete development through Boccia Bermuda.
These individuals exemplify excellence, dedication, and service to our community. Bermuda celebrates your remarkable contributions and lasting impact.
#Bermuda #KingsBirthdayHonours #CommunityExcellence 🇧🇲
I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
Sir John: '“To the young people of Bermuda, I leave you with this: never underestimate your power. You inherit not only a beautiful island, but a legacy of courage and perseverance. Protect it. Challenge it. Improve upon it. Let your ambition be matched only by your compassion"
“I will always love my country and my people,” Sir John Swan said in his final message which was released after his death and urged us all to “take care of this island, take care of each other.” https://t.co/jDptM9ItxQ
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
I know y’all are in love with Curtis but that press conference gave nothing…
Leadership is more than what’s on a resume and you can’t lead parliament with a minority support…
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney#Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE
The Exsultet, the Easter Proclamation, this morning at the Easter Vigil in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, at the site where Our Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday
“They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.”
A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed his olive groves and stole the olives in Tulkarem (West Bank).
Today is Land Day.
50 years ago today, six un-armed Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and more than 100 were injured during protests against Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian land.
Palestinians observe today by holding protest marches and planting olive trees.
Matthew 6:5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.”
Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’. Israel is now the most racist state the world has ever known.
Shame on every government, every company, every individual who offer it support.
Israel must immediately repeal the discriminatory death penalty law passed today by the Knesset, as it contravenes Israel’s obligations under international law.
The United Nations opposes the death penalty under all circumstances. The implementation of this new law would violate international law's prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
Additionally, this law further entrenches Israel’s violation of the prohibition of racial segregation and apartheid as it will exclusively apply to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Israel, who are often convicted after unfair trials.
Read @UNHumanRights earlier statement and analysis about the death penalty draft bill:
https://t.co/oHVrU5nomP…