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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....

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!”...