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To get a true sense of what Flora Duffy accomplished, and its impact on Bermuda, when she crushed a world-class field to win the World Triathlon Championships Grand Final in Cozumel, Mexico, you need to go no farther than the comments from a watching...

It’s a time of searing political attacks, angry partisan passions and fevered conspiracy theories. It’s a time of sometimes unrestrained hysteria and outbreaks of what can only be described as galloping paranoia. It’s a time when politicians, their...

For some trade union leaders Labour Day was less an occasion to reflect on the past successes of the Bermuda workers’ movement than it was to draw new battle lines. With one trade unionist invoking the Biblical End of Days to describe the current st...

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...