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The dress rehearsal was not spectacular, but there were many lessons to be learnt from what transpired on December 2, 2016 so that today should go as smoothly as can be expected. If last week was anything to go by, on MPs’ very belated return to the ...

In the week that the murder of another young Bermudian male has cast a pall of despair over the country, it is both uplifting and comforting that a handful of the very same demographic can elicit a smile and the encouragement of hope for our future. ...

When outgoing US President Barack Obama lamented the state of democracy in his farewell address to the American public this week, one can only hope that prominent members of our own community were listening. For many of the points he made could just ...

There are times when words come out of the mouth that as you speak them, and they become readily audible, you wish you could suck them back in and have a do-over. But hindsight doesn’t work like that. There’s no rewind switch — once it’s out there, i...

Ever since union leader Chris Furbert let slip on Labour Day that someone “very dear to us” had his work permit expire and was waiting to learn if it would be renewed, the saga of the Reverend Nicholas Tweed has been played out like a highly predicta...

It would be equally naive and disingenuous to proclaim that this is a time for healing in Bermuda. With Christmas falling so soon after the “Pepper Spray Protests”, and our police and politicians in government walking on eggshells, it would take some...

When Andrew Bascome embraced Rastafarianism in the late 1980s, it was the beginning of a healing period that would not reach maturity until Monday morning. We may never know what inspired the man to utter the three words that changed a run-of-the-mil...

“You don’t want to mess with us. There are people with ammunition; they may come here — that’s what they told me. I tried to calm them down; they will shoot. They will come.” If December 2 was a day to forget, or one that will live in infamy for Berm...

March 2016 played host to the Pathways to Status Bill. December 2016, only two days young, the poor lass, has delivered the airport redevelopment legislation. The common denominator? Neither political process was allowed to go forward because of unla...

The term “have your cake and eat it too” is one that resonates throughout all Bermudian homes. But, particularly in the home of one Marc Bean, former leader of the Progressive Labour Party, it is hard to disavow the inclination that Christmas has com...