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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...

It was one of those watershed moments in world history that gave the slow march of events in Bermuda an abrupt push in a new and entirely unexpected direction. Britain’s final acceptance and recognition of American Independence in 1783 meant, among o...

At last, it’s under way. The work of the Commission of Inquiry into the Auditor-General’s scathing reports on the Bermuda Government’s finances between 2010 and 2012 has started. Expectations from the public will be high — and rightly so. The slipsho...

“Passion for this great game, commitment, unity, hard work, courage and the pride of playing for our country, drives us. “Now we are representing our country on the international stage, the players are very committed and eager to achieve a clear goal...

Generally speaking, you actually are what you eat. And if you eat a diet consistently high in sugar, processed food and saturated fat, you are more likely than not a diabetic-in-waiting. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Bermuda, at once one of th...

Bermuda was once more caught up in an indiscriminate hail of fire loosely aimed at offshore financial centres this week after the global coverage of tax avoidance by wealthy people known as the Panama Papers. Bermuda was not mentioned in the stories ...

As Somerset Trojans prepared to bow out of the Caribbean Club Championship in Haiti in late February, coach Kieshon Smith reopened a very stale can of worms. Not unimportant, mind, but stale all the same, for the lack of attention given to his concer...

Mark Twain, arguably Bermuda’s first and most celebrated repeat visitor, didn’t overstate matters at all when he remarked that lack of money is actually the root of all evil. Twain’s wry assessment is borne out by the direct and indirect effects of t...