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The phrase “it takes a village to raise a child” is frequently uttered in Bermuda — so often, perhaps, that it’s become something of a trope. We all understand its noble meaning — that we, as a society, are all responsible for bringing up the island’...

What’s another million dollars? Nothing if what you believe you are doing is right and in the best interests of your people. That is the conundrum the Bermuda Government is faced with in the wake of an entirely predictable defeat in the Court of Appe...

Silly season is soon upon us. The country’s parliamentarians reconvene in the House of Assembly in seven days on the promise of behaving significantly better than they did during an extended 2017-18 session that kept 35 generally well-intentioned peo...

Neil Speight handing in his resignation as chief executive of the Bermuda Cricket Board recently was not so much a case of him abandoning a sinking ship but a matter of affixing an oxygen tank to his back with flippers to deliver him from the ocean d...

After a series of administrative hiccups that delayed its launch by weeks, the Bermuda Police Service’s roadside sobriety checkpoints initiative can be regarded a nascent success. Not a roaring success — because in the overall interest of saving live...

Wayne Caines is in charge of a most serious ministry. It is a ministry that is charged with promoting a new industry that could do wonders for an uncertain economy. And it is also charged with ridding the island of a pernicious drug and gang culture ...

It has been estimated that there were close to 2,500 incidents of stop-and-search in 2017, which works out to about seven a day. To a section of our community, that may be seven too many. But from where we sit, as the family of Danshun Swann, 25, mo...

Cup Match, remember that? The two-day cricket match that ended 17 days ago with Somerset securing their first innings defeat of St George’s for 70 years? Yes, that one. Well, apart from resident columnist Christopher Famous banging on unapologeticall...

When Vasco da Gama took the bold decision to introduce mandatory drug-testing for those who wish to play football for them in the coming season, clubs, sporting associations and politicians went ducking for cover. Not a peep could be heard from them ...

What we discovered amid the long-running soap opera that was Shelly Bay Beach was the scope for Bermudian antipathy towards one of the two pillars of our economy when it gets too close to home. An island that advertises itself as possessing many and ...