When Age Concern’s Claudette Fleming told this newspaper last week that seniors were fed up with being preached to, she was probably expressing a widespread frustration among older people.
It seems t...
History has an unfortunate tendency of playing out as tragedy before it eventually comes to be understood as an ongoing morality tale.
The historical record is, in the main, a long, bleak account of...
Overgrown grass, weeds and roadside vegetation has been a hotter topic than usual this summer.
The state of the Island’s parks and public open spaces has, at times, left a lot to be desired. Some area...
Every generation likes to consider itself to be more intelligent, more capable and entirely more virtuous than the one which preceded it. And every generation likes to think it has either attained or ...
Great employers deserve their moment in the spotlight. Their immense value to the community all too frequently flies under the radar. The issue of labour relations only seems to make the news when the...
It’s September and Bermuda’s children crept unwillingly back to school this month. Doubtless many of them are already counting the days until the Christmas holidays begin — as are their parents, altho...
Bermuda can count itself fortunate to be home to the Green family. Their purchase of the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, the $90 million makeover that has followed, the development of the hotel’s beac...
Let’s be absolutely clear about what we’re asking for here. We are not calling for an outright ban on helmets with tinted visors. Nor are we calling for a ban on full-faced helmets. What we want is to...
The difference between propaganda and reasoned argument is the difference between a beef bouillon cube and Kobe beef.
Like their counterparts elsewhere, Bermuda’s politicians and their surrogates have...
When we said last Friday that incidents the like of which resulted in the death of Shijuan Mungal last year could happen every day in Bermuda, it was not done to apportion blame to the slain teenager....
