Just as Oscar Wilde said that he did not want to live in a world where Utopia wasn’t marked on the map, so an increasing number of tourists are opting to travel to destinations which can’t properly be...
The seafarers and shipwrights today’s Bermudians are descended from would have been intimately familiar with a venerable nautical term, one which dates from Roman times: “When a man does not know what...
At one time Bermuda had become so closely identified with this season of rebirth and renewal it was routinely referred to as “The Easter Isle” in the North American press.
By the end of the 19th centu...
For the first time in many years, investors in the hospitality sector are looking at the cost/benefit analyses of doing business in Bermuda and deciding the Island is a sound bet.
The Green family are...
Even the most scrupulously law-abiding of Bermuda’s residents is unlikely to be entirely happy with all of Bermuda’s laws.
But in a community based on the rule of law, we are all bound to respect and ...
Encouraging voters to organise, march and rally in defence of their interests is always a healthy thing in a democracy, particularly a lethargic one like ours.
In theory, Bermudians are of course free...
In Bermuda it’s never been uncommon for the buck to be passed hither, thither and yon.
There have always been those among us who cheerfully accept credit for their successes — even successes they on...
The massacre at Tunisia’s Bardo National Museum on Wednesday didn’t just bear all the hallmarks of modern extremist terror, it was an almost precise re-enactment of one of the first such large-scale a...
The annual ordeal by tedium that is the Parliamentary Budget debate is now behind us. As usual, there was much in the way of grandstanding, sub-Gilbert & Sullivan political slapstick and contrived emo...
In 1940 the poet Edna St Vincent Millay offered up a furious rebuke in verse to a still-powerful Isolationist lobby determined to keep America artificially distanced from the violent convulsions then ...
