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Whatever one thinks about David Burt — and these days, it’s mostly positive — he is the Premier of Bermuda. The leader of the country. How is it, then, that someone can be alleged to have threatened to put a hole in his head, and pull him out of his...

When all’s said and done, it was actually pretty boring. As a contest, that is. When you add all the emotion pouring out of the crowds lined all through Hamilton, of course, it was anything but. Simply put, we’re used to this now. Flora Duffy dominat...

There was a time when Jeff Baron and Michael Dunkley, the former Premier of Bermuda, were inseparable. They were like peas in a pod, one entirely in step with the other, looking to do “the people’s business”, an impressively indefatigable and well-ma...

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...

We have long been hearing that Bermuda needs to diversify its economy. The reasons are straightforward enough. Bob Richards, the former finance minister put it well in an interview with The Royal Gazette in 2010. “Take a B52, a bomber that’s designed...

Ira Philip was a newsman who eventually became part of the larger Bermudian story he covered for so many years. During a career that spanned almost seven decades, his journalistic beats encompassed everything from politics to sport, from cultural hi...

It is mightily disappointing that PHC’s record-breaking tenth football league championship has been forced to share time in the news cycle with the shenanigans that followed the club’s celebration party last Sunday. They did not deserve that. But a ...

Flora Duffy arrived on Australia’s Gold Coast as one of the most prohibitive favourites of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She is that good. But as the wonderfully unpredictable and sometimes heartbreaking history of sport has often shown, you can only ...

What if Donald Trump decided one day that every one of his asinine tweets that has been recycled for the benefit of the media and wider public consumption was his personal, intellectual property, and that he wished to be compensated for their reuse w...

Quia timet. Fear of the unknown. A pre-emptive strike. It can be said with certainty now that freedom of the press — The Royal Gazette, in particular — to look into the goings-on of the fledgeling casino gaming industry in Bermuda is at the heart of ...