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On July 7, British prime minister Boris Johnson finally resigned. Or claimed he would resign. Undone by his own Cabinet ministers, who in realising that their own credibily was at stake, he decided to jump ship. What does this mean for the British Ov...

“I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the internet.” — Walter Cronkite The word “corruption” is used freely by nameless persons in the comments ...

One afternoon, a fox was walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of grapes hanging from a lofty branch. “Just the thing to quench my thirst,” he thought. Taking a few steps back, the fox jumped and just missed the hanging grapes. Again the fox...

“When we judge or criticise another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.” — Sir Winston Churchill I have read, with a large amount of amusement, the weekly list of comments from fa...

Bermuda is part of a global village, and as importantly, we are part of a regional village. One of the countries that is close to us in more ways that one is the Turks & Caicos Islands. Located some 850 miles to our southwest, TCI is an archipelago o...

A few days ago a question was posed on a Facebook group that asked the following: “How many of you consider De Rock part of the Caribbean?” Ninety per cent of the answers were as follows; “Not!!!” “No way”. “Negative!!!”. No real surprises with the n...

Some 30-plus years ago, I had to pass a few tests when I was introduced to two strong Bailey’s Bay women. Both of whom were taller than me. Even before I got to sit down, I was asked some pertinent questions. Mother: “So, where are you from, youn...

Tomorrow we celebrate yet another Bermuda Day — perhaps one of our most significant days of this year. As a country with diverse cultures, we tend to celebrate the day in many different ways. From early in the morning, many will line the streets to w...

During this week’s epic Senate debate, the One Bermuda Alliance made a point of saying that the Fairmont Southampton project would cause 60 per cent of the construction workers on site to be non-Bermudian. Not sure how it can speak to percentages, as...

They say that the world is small and you never know who is connected/related to whom. This is extremely true. Last week we had an inflatable mattress with a leak. We took it to Island Construction Services, in Devonshire, to get it repaired. We met a...