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John Rankin has had a pretty rough time of it from the moment he was sworn in as Governor of Bermuda — a mere ten days after civil unrest, literally on the streets of Parliament. Starting from the fallout of December 2, 2016, a date that will be infa...

One step forward, two steps backward. Push, pull. Accusation, counter-accusation. Punch, counterpunch. Just when we think we’re getting somewhere, actually we’re not. This entire mess over Bermuda’s political leaders tearing strips out of the country...

We seek and deserve an overdue apology from Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education and Workforce Development. This is not because the Bow-tied One has gone out of his way to create a war footing with The Royal Gazette. It is because there is the li...

It is not unreasonable to conclude that had Parliament not reconvened until February 9, 2019 rather than this morning, John Rankin would still be giving “careful consideration” to the Domestic Partnership Act 2017. Since the Senate gave its approval ...

So the prodigal son has made it back from the abyss. The People’s Campaign for Equality, Jobs and Justice announced its return to relevance last week after an extended spell in hibernation during which the future of one its three kingpins was placed ...

Someone within the Bermuda Tourism Authority believes that an internal e-mail circulated by the chief executive that effectively takes The Royal Gazette to task for misleading the public is newsworthy. The leaker, whose future at the BTA must surely ...

By the mid-1970s, neglect, time and the elements had inflicted more punishment on the massive ramparts and buildings of the Keep at Bermuda’s old Royal Naval Dockyard than any of the potential military enemies it had been built to guard against. The ...

Bermudians are, by and large, an independent, canny and resourceful people. In many ways we have long embodied what Theodore Roosevelt meant when he said that “far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work wor...

Even during this island’s very palmiest days in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there were people living on the outskirts of hope, those who had been left behind as remarkable economic growth brought unparalleled opportunity for most Bermudians. In m...

“Democracy thrives on civil debate, but we’re shamefully out of practice.” — Michael Sandel (TED2010) On September 26, 1960, Richard Nixon, the Vice-President of the United States, and Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy engaged in the first of fo...