At the stroke of 11am yesterday, Bermuda fell silent for two minutes to honour our war dead. The tradition dates from the Armistice, which ended what was then called the Great War on “the eleventh hou...
Now that the dust has settled, a word on our Bermuda cricket team who returned home this week after a winless exercise at the ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates.
There is strong t...
At the beginning of his speech to the Progressive Labour Party delegates conference on Monday night, David Burt warned the audience: “Fasten your seatbelts.”
In this, at least, the Premier was not in...
November 4 will be upon us before we know it. That date is significant in that it will be the first public holiday in Bermuda to recognise the contributions that Portuguese have made to these islands ...
From the first session of what would become the House of Assembly 399 years ago, Bermudians have always been fiercely independent, much to the chagrin of past governors and others sent to assist the i...
With Walton Brown’s death, the Progressive Labour Party has lost one of its more thoughtful and cerebral leaders, and is the poorer for it.
Mr Brown, who was just 59 at the time of his passing, was d...
Plans to extend maternity leave to 13 weeks of paid leave and the introduction, for the first time of five days paternity leave, passed with overwhelming support in the House of Assembly last week and...
Leaders in every walk of life must make decisions based on the facts available to them at the time.
Those decisions invariably require judgment and some effort to predict the future. It requires iden...
As a young man in sport, Zane DeSilva was a goalkeeper with Somerset Eagles. He wasn’t the best; he wasn’t the worst, either. But this week, in football parlance, you could say he simply threw one in....
You can find some real doozies on social media, but few warrant a wider airing as does the ongoing rant over Buzz and its newly unveiled 3 per cent voluntary gratuity.
The management of the fast-food ...
