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Four freedoms are often deemed fundamental to the proper working of any democratic society — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. To those four a fifth is often added — freedom from ignorance. That means gua...

For most everyone in Bermuda Labour Day marks the unofficial end of summer. Today’s public holiday amounts to a festive last hurrah for the season, one marked by beaches, boats and barbecues. However, it is important to always bear in mind what Labo...

It’s never just been a venue for music, poetry readings and the visual and performing arts. Far from it. Since its inception the Chewstick Foundation has always been both a cultural hub and a thriving meeting place for young Bermudian artists. It’s...

Too many of us still seem to labour under the delusion that Bermuda has unlimited financial resources at its disposal. It’s almost as if we have embraced the comforting deception Bermuda can draw on a miraculously self-replenishing treasure trove le...

There is an increasing sense of exasperation evident among the captains of Bermuda’s offshore industry. The same irritation is also being expressed by employees of the sector’s local satellite businesses as well as by a growing number of professiona...

Virtue isn’t just its own reward, certainly when it comes to maintaining above board political, business and regulatory infrastructures: the many economic, social and cultural benefits that ensue can actually be quantified. In fact, watchdog organisa...

There is a theory doing the rounds that it will take “the wrong person” to be shot and killed before this island readily can get to grips with the gun violence that has now claimed 30 lives since May 2009. What qualifies as the wrong person if neithe...

So it has come to this. Flora Duffy lining up against the best that the world has to offer in the Olympic women’s triathlon and doing so justifiably as a bona fide medal contender. Not since Brian Wellman and Clarance Saunders were in their heyday ha...

Mark Twain recommended we strive to live our lives so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry. As was so often the case, the advice offered by one of Bermuda’s favourite adopted sons was spot on. We live in a decidedly schizophrenic world...

The story that appeared in the sports pages of this newspaper on Thursday informing of the exit of Bermuda from the Concacaf Under-15 Girls Championship in Orlando, Florida, was accompanied by an inappropriate headline, for which we are deeply sorry....