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On a holiday weekend notable for pomp and ceremony, and for the respect paid annually to those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that have done so much to shape our existence, it is somewhat symbolic that what transpired on the night of Rem...

“I don’t care who I’m working with to get it done, we just have to get it done, and I will work until I decide to retire with all of the energy and commitment that I have. But I want to see results. I’m here to support, not undermine, but I will be v...

What has been largely if not totally overlooked in the wake of the draft consultation Bill that home affairs minister Walton Brown unveiled last week is the impact that it may have on unmarried heterosexuals. Same-sex marriage proponents are justifi...

After the murder of Perry Puckerin Jr on January 3, 2010 at the height of the alleged gang wars, the following was written as a Letter to the Editor by the present Editor of The Royal Gazette, when repatriating to Bermuda had yet to be envisioned. Wh...

Representing an island nation is difficult at the best of times. Pitting your wits and skills often against the best in the world, and in the knowledge that virtually any country you come up against has a far larger pool to choose from can be deflati...

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 ...

It is not uncommon these days to hear Bermudian politicians on the campaign trail pledge to introduce policy regimes based around “consultation”, “collaboration” and “transparency” if their party is elected to power. Sadly, experience would suggest t...

As a number of commentators have crassly but not inaccurately noted over the years, the storm clouds of 1992’s monstrous Hurricane Andrew had a shimmering silver lining for Bermuda. When that Category 5 storm buzz-sawed its way across Florida almost ...

Just as no man is an island, no island is an island in this increasingly interconnected world. Consequently, Sunday night’s gunfire in faraway Las Vegas reverberated here with a chilling immediacy. The indiscriminate slaughter on the streets of that...

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...