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It has been said Bermuda has a tendency to hurry slowly, that it’s the land where time has almost, but not quite, stood still. There’s more than a little truth to this, of course. Our leisurely pace is part of our charm. Indeed, one of the island’s ...

It came from above. It came sideways. It came from below. It came with no shortage of unseasonably squallish winds. But after all that Mother Nature could throw at the XL Catlin End-to-End on Saturday, hundreds of Bermudians and those who have taken ...

Technically, a recession of unprecedented length and severity came to an end in Bermuda last year. That was when the island finally recorded two consecutive quarters of modest, but measurable, growth in our gross domestic product. In practice, howev...

When Leicester City clinched the Barclays Premier League title as 5,000-1 shots, the sporting world reached instantly for the annals to unfurl the greatest upsets in our time. Out came Goran Ivanisevic winning the 2001 Wimbledon men’s singles title a...

Tax evasion is illegal everywhere. What’s called “tax avoidance” is, of course, not only legal but the cornerstone of thriving speciality practices at any number of leading — and some not-so-exemplary — law firms around the world. Many brilliant leg...

Nelson Hunt is not likely to be furnished with a gun permit after he has had his chat with the Premier. That much we can virtually guarantee. But it is evidently clear that recent events have triggered an attitude within right-thinking Bermudians who...

The day may come when newspapers are filled only with headlines, photographs and captions, but that day is surely light years closer to a very distant horizon than it is to the here and now. The advances in modern technology have spawned an impatient...

These days when the international media refer to Bermuda as a “treasure isle”, this is usually unsubtle — and singularly unhelpful — code for the activities of our offshore financial services sector. So it was refreshing to find BBC 4 had devoted thi...

The Queen, who celebrated her 90th birthday this week, has been on the throne since 1952, a symbol of both continuity and change during a period when Britain and its role in the world have been transformed almost beyond recognition. The Queen’s abil...

At the outset of his political career he posed, and then proceeded to answer to his own satisfaction, what remains among the most vexing questions in Bermudian public life. In his “Am I Being Used?” speech delivered to a City Hall audience during the...