When outgoing US President Barack Obama lamented the state of democracy in his farewell address to the American public this week, one can only hope that prominent members of our own community were lis...
Ever since union leader Chris Furbert let slip on Labour Day that someone “very dear to us” had his work permit expire and was waiting to learn if it would be renewed, the saga of the Reverend Nichola...
It would be equally naive and disingenuous to proclaim that this is a time for healing in Bermuda. With Christmas falling so soon after the “Pepper Spray Protests”, and our police and politicians in g...
When Andrew Bascome embraced Rastafarianism in the late 1980s, it was the beginning of a healing period that would not reach maturity until Monday morning.
We may never know what inspired the man to u...
“You don’t want to mess with us. There are people with ammunition; they may come here — that’s what they told me. I tried to calm them down; they will shoot. They will come.”
If December 2 was a day t...
March 2016 played host to the Pathways to Status Bill. December 2016, only two days young, the poor lass, has delivered the airport redevelopment legislation. The common denominator? Neither political...
The term “have your cake and eat it too” is one that resonates throughout all Bermudian homes. But, particularly in the home of one Marc Bean, former leader of the Progressive Labour Party, it is hard...
For everyone in Bermuda on October 27, 1962, it suddenly seemed the end wasn’t nigh, it was here.
At precisely 6.36 that morning, a massive thundercrack explosion at the East End reverberated through...
Mark Twain, that most American of American national treasures, celebrated what was to be his final Thanksgiving, in Bermuda on November 25, 1909. Already in failing health — he died the next March at ...
The saying goes that those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Called out for their alleged inaction in the recent disturbance at Somerset Cricket Club, the Bermuda Police Service hit bac...
