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Factional wars and persistent rumours of factional wars have been constants in Bermuda party politics in recent years. This is not entirely surprising. We are living in unsettled and fractious times, after all. Some of the prevailing tensions are b...

Bermuda wasn’t your father’s Oldsmobile. In Stephen Birnbaum’s expert opinion, by the late 1980s the island’s tourism product was actually something closer akin to your great-grandfather’s Model T Ford. He might have been parodying a popular advert...

“Blessed is the status quo” — this is a political beatitude sacred to lawmakers worldwide. While they routinely campaign to the extremes, gleefully abandoning moderation to fire up their bases, if elected most pragmatic political figures resolutely a...

For eight brave souls, and the two who will follow when the world’s best Paralympians roll into Rio de Janeiro next month, these are the absolute best of times. When the Olympic flame is lit tonight to mark the official opening of the Games of the XX...

They were rudimentary props but ones which made his point far more emphatically than any amount of sermonising about the need to eat your vegetables and curb your sugar intake ever could. When former Philadelphia mayor Mike Nutter first floated the...

Now that the dust has settled on Cup Match and Somerset prepare for a future that does not include a run machine whose surname is amended by deed poll at this time of year to demonstrate his utter dominance of the annual classic, it is time to reflec...

He started out as Hamilton’s somewhat unconventional, unofficial greeter and ended up becoming Bermuda’s goodwill ambassador to the world. The windmilling waves to early-morning commuters, the beaming smiles and the heartfelt cries of “Good morning!”...

Emancipation. Jordan DeSilva. Oronde Bascome. Fiqre Crockwell. Not quite the parallel with Conquest, War, Famine and Death, but one of those should be a recurring theme whenever the Cup Match holiday period rolls around. The other three are talking p...

It has been an exhilarating few weeks for Bermuda’s rising rugby union stars. A squad of talented young men went to Miami for the Rugby Americas North Under-19 Championship, while some of our inspiring young women have been attending a camp at Life U...

Picture this if you will. A kitchen window pane, spider-webbed with cracks spreading out from where a stray .45 calibre bullet has punched a hole through it early on a summer night. A table directly in front of the window is empty now, but wet rings...