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Perhaps more disappointing than the scenes that tarnished the memory of a competitive and well-played game of football on Sunday is the refusal of the victims to co-operate with law enforcement. That abdication of duty and responsibility is at the ve...

Politics in Bermuda, as elsewhere, tends to be an odd combination of occasionally inspired statesmanship, day-to-day stewardship ranging from the pragmatic to the barely serviceable and increasingly gaudy showmanship. Indeed we live in an age where ...

Muhammad Ali, arguably the greatest boxer ever to lace up a pair of gloves, took up the sport as a way of being prepared to defend himself in the future after his bicycle was stolen. Rocky Marciano took up boxing to avoid kitchen duty when he was dr...

In the celebrated Paul Gallico novella Love Of Seven Dolls, the tiny wood-and-felt cast of a carnival puppet show, each with its own distinct character and perceptive insights, helps to heal the wounded psyche of a traumatised French teenager. Bypas...

Hurricane Nicole was a fickle one from the outset. She formed well to our southeast, moved north and then moved south before heading westward and turning due north, making a beeline for Bermuda. With such unpredictability in her make-up bag, it shoul...

He was described as “a devoted, knowledgeable and sometimes startlingly original Bermudian” in a landmark 1979 New Yorker profile of the island, at once a custodian of our past and a perceptive and spirited commentator on how that history coloured Be...

Age is just a number, goes the saying, but in this society it is often the elderly whose concerns are overlooked, the elderly who are cast into a corner waiting to move on to the next life while “those who know better” get on with the business of liv...

We are witnessing it take place around the world, an increasingly widespread rejection of politics as usual and the usual politicians. It was evident in the result of the UK’s Brexit referendum, which poleaxed the professional political class and co...

Whatever one may think of the most efficient ways to spend $38,000, or whether such a small sum of money in the context of national spending is worth losing a job over, what is undeniable is that the Bermuda Government has made a pig’s ear of trying ...

Long-time Bermuda Press president Roger Davidson stewarded The Royal Gazette and its parent company through a long and hugely consequential period of change, growth and transition on a scale not seen since this newspaper was established in 1828. Mr D...