It is not uncommon these days to hear Bermudian politicians on the campaign trail pledge to introduce policy regimes based around “consultation”, “collaboration” and “transparency” if their party is e...
As a number of commentators have crassly but not inaccurately noted over the years, the storm clouds of 1992’s monstrous Hurricane Andrew had a shimmering silver lining for Bermuda.
When that Category...
Just as no man is an island, no island is an island in this increasingly interconnected world. Consequently, Sunday night’s gunfire in faraway Las Vegas reverberated here with a chilling immediacy.
T...
Bermudians are, by and large, an independent, canny and resourceful people.
In many ways we have long embodied what Theodore Roosevelt meant when he said that “far and away the best prize that life h...
Even during this island’s very palmiest days in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there were people living on the outskirts of hope, those who had been left behind as remarkable economic growth brought ...
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Sir Winston Churchill
The most controversial yet legal form of dismissal in the noble man’s sport of cricket...
Thirty years ago this week the island learnt the most valuable lesson in self-reliance in its modern history and the Royal Bermuda Regiment came of age.
On the evening of September 24, 1987, Bermuda r...
The Atlantic hurricane season is a humbling annual reminder that nature remains wild, unpredictable and highly dangerous despite any pretensions we may have about taming the world around us.
And certa...
Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser.” These are the words of Vince Lombardi, the legendary former Green Bay Packers head coach. Thank goodness we have Flora Duffy to totally disprove that l...
Few issues on the Bermuda political agenda have been as assiduously avoided and talked around in recent years as independence.
For all practical purposes, the matter was filed and forgotten along with...
