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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...

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...

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Sir Winston Churchill The most controversial yet legal form of dismissal in the noble man’s sport of cricket is commonly known as the “Mankad”. However, the ...

Thirty years ago this week the island learnt the most valuable lesson in self-reliance in its modern history and the Royal Bermuda Regiment came of age. On the evening of September 24, 1987, Bermuda residents went to bed assured by weather forecaster...

The Atlantic hurricane season is a humbling annual reminder that nature remains wild, unpredictable and highly dangerous despite any pretensions we may have about taming the world around us. And certainly the uncontrolled fits of insanity the natural...

Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser.” These are the words of Vince Lombardi, the legendary former Green Bay Packers head coach. Thank goodness we have Flora Duffy to totally disprove that load of nonsense. If ever there was an image that s...

Few issues on the Bermuda political agenda have been as assiduously avoided and talked around in recent years as independence. For all practical purposes, the matter was filed and forgotten along with the final report of former premier Alex Scott’s 2...

It’s a “What if ...” question that can only be speculated upon but not definitively answered, at least not yet. And it’s one that is being increasingly asked given the likely convergence in the coming months of two seemingly unrelated but rather obvi...