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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 beach club on the site of the former Sonesta hotel in ...

Economic inequality is increasingly an issue on the Island and not only between those who have jobs and those who do not. The widening gap between the best paid in our community and the lowest paid should not be ignored. On an Island of this size, t...

Upon the completion last weekend of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event in Gothenburg, Sweden, all eyes turned genuinely towards Bermuda. After all that has been said and written, that superyacht of possibilities is heading our way fas...

How we manage our personal finances is a key factor in the standard of living we enjoy. It can influence the education we can give our children, the type of home in which we live and whether retirement is truly a period of “golden years” or a grim b...

The best actors possess a curious duality, one predicated on the contradictory need for self-exposure and self-protection. They are “wide open, yet with no breaches in their armour”, as one renowned critic termed this paradoxical quality. Defencele...

This is Cup Match week. The teams have been selected, St George’s Cricket Club and its grounds are being made to look smart, and revellers are at the ready for festivities in the East End and all over the Island. The buzz of excitement is palpable. T...

Seventy years ago today — April 15, 1945 — British troops entered the fairy tale town of Celle in Lower Saxony and abruptly found themselves on the threshold of hell. Outside Celle the British units, which included a number of Bermudians who had volu...

In the late 1940s the attack dogs of the extreme American right first began to howl about Hollywood. In the paranoid Cold War climate that prevailed, Reds were routinely being spotted under every bed – including the ornate four-posters at some of th...

Politicians are a risk-averse breed as a rule. Not for them any grand deed or word, any principled beau geste, which flies in the face of the popular mood. Not for them any bold initiative which challenges outdated but entrenched social conventions o...

Unlike the rest of us, who trudged wearily back to work this week, Parliament’s Christmas holiday extends until February. Which is not to say the daily business of governance doesn’t go on. It does, of course. But Bermudians will have to wait until l...