At the stroke of 11am this morning, 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 ...
“A most dreadful tempest (and) hideous began to blow … at length (it) did beat all light from heaven, which like an hell of darkness turned black upon us … For four and twenty hours the storm in a re...
Just last week Bermuda was patting itself on the back as the end of what had been forecast to be be a slower-than-normal hurricane season approached. Once again it looked as if we might run the annua...
Reality, it’s been said, is that which doesn’t go away even when you stop believing in it.
Substituting comforting fantasies for hard-edged realities may be a source of short-term solace to those whos...
There have been hopeful signs of late that Bermuda’s long identity crisis as a tourism destination may finally be approaching some kind of successful resolution.
After 30 years of increasingly despera...
Harry Potter, it seems, has worked a kind of practical magic on his worldwide readership.
It’s been seven years since the last volume in the bestselling literary series of all time, the estimable Harr...
A succession of recent tragedies cannot help but bring to mind another summer 75 years past when, as the poet said, “waves of anger and fear” spread around the world and “the unmentionable odour of de...
It’s one of Bermuda’s dirtiest — and worst kept — little secrets.
Domestic abuse is an increasingly ugly reality on the Island. But it is a subject which is all too talked around rather than talked ab...
Parliament will reconvene shortly, and if the past six months are any indicator, there is little reason to hope that the backbiting, divisiveness, and playground-level politics that have become the Is...
This is the seventh in a mulipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
For generations Bermudians were familiarised almost from birth with the benefits the whole Island derived from the tou...
