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The start of a new year is traditionally a good time to turn over a new leaf. How about some consequences for those who serve in Government and who ignore the rules designed to protect taxpayers from being ripped off? That would apparently be somethi...

It is sometimes tempting to write Bermuda off as a community suffering from an advanced case of “affluenza”, one in which far too high a value is placed on money, status and appearances. Such environments, it has been said, provide particularly barre...

The Christmas holiday gives most of us a break from our hectic routine, a chance to enjoy time with loved ones and an opportunity to pause for reflection as we look ahead to the new year. The customs of Christmas make togetherness a theme. Gathering ...

From a galaxy far, far away to the Speciality Cinema, Star Wars is as much a part of Bermuda’s Christmas this year as cassava pie, eggnog and the boat parade. The relaunched but pleasingly scruffy and unrefurbished Millennium Falcon is clearly the m...

It may be the most ubiquitous lie — the lie so transparent that it has guilty stamped all over it. “Honestly officer, I’ve had one beer and a small glass of wine.” Unsteady on the feet, reeking of alcohol and eyes glazed, we know that same driver has...

So the most visible job in local sport has gone to Clay Smith. The Bermuda Cricket Board got its man after what was claimed to be “an extensive and rigorous” interview process — the lengths a son of the soil has to go to prove his worth despite the r...

Coming as it does less than a fortnight after Michael DeSilva outlined the way forward for the Bermuda Police Service over the next three years, yesterday’s release from the union whose mandate it is to safeguard the welfare of the officers who will ...

Yesterday’s decision by the United States Federal Reserve to raise interest rates will have very real repercussions for Bermuda. While the initial impact of a quarter of a percentage point rise is likely to be light — in the form of a probable small ...

Any government interested in being re-elected is always conscious of the circumstances that led to its election in the first place. The present Bermuda Government campaigned in 2012 on what amounted to a slogan of “Getting Bermuda working again” afte...

The same-sex debate may have ruffled a few feathers and has been greeted by opponents with grunts of indignation, but in the greater scheme of things, this isn’t an issue that needs lengthy discussion. Equal rights are not malleable. Freedom of choic...