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The greatest assist the “Yes, Yes” campaigners could have received in the run-up to the same-sex marriage and civil unions referendum this week came from an unlikely source. No, not Sir John Swan, but Omar Mateen. When the radicalised New Yorker of i...

Sir John Swan may best be described as an idealist without illusions. He is a man whose boldly optimistic vision of what Bermuda has the potential to be has always been tempered by an intuitive understanding of life’s harder realities. His ability t...

Highly thoughtful and deliberative, Chief Justice Ian Kawaley is a man not to be taken anything but seriously. And before issuing a recent ruling upholding the legality of the pending referendum on same-sex marriage and civil unions, he bluntly descr...

On the same day that Bermudians go to the polls for the same-sex marriage vote next week, another referendum will be taking place some 3,500 miles away that will have a potentially greater impact on this island’s future prospects. Britons will be dec...

Traffic came to a literal standstill in Bermuda on Saturday. The gridlock lasted throughout the day when construction work on Harbour Road resulted in thousands of motorists heading both to and from the western parishes being snarled in endless traff...

This week she became the presumptive Democratic nominee for the United States presidency, the first woman to be selected as the standard-bearer for either of the two major political parties. Given the all too obvious shortcomings of the Republican ca...

In many ways, the United States Constitution and the entire American experiment can be argued to be the supreme products of the Age of Reason. From its birth, America has been a society predicated on enlightened principles, one that has continuously...

It was a sweltering Bermuda afternoon in August 1965. The average person, local and visitor alike, felt as drained of energy as a dead car battery. But then Muhammad Ali was not the least bit average. Crowned the world heavyweight boxing champion le...

Our politicians need to stop kicking the can down Bermuda’s increasingly ill-maintained and potholed roads. After years of stopgap measures, piecemeal and patchwork repairs and pared-down funding, Bermuda must finally establish a comprehensive long-t...

There are two men in custody for the murder of Patrick Dill. They may or may not be guilty of the crime, but the wider question is: what is Bermuda going to do about a problem that is eating away at our community. Not the black community. Not the whi...