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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...

In today’s economic climate, many households do not have $5,000 lying around in loose change. Those who are swimming in it can afford to throw down five large on a poker table and not lose a moment’s sleep, but for most of us such an outlay requires...

It remains to be seen whether Nahki Wells can match the feats of Clyde Best and Shaun Goater in England’s top division, but he does have a record already that may never be broken by a Bermudian footballer. Wells, who was playing with local club Dandy...

When is freedom of expression no longer free? When you cannot be held accountable for it. Almost two years ago, The Royal Gazette revised policy on Letters to the Editor whereby we discontinued the practice of allowing our local readers, and those fr...