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Data released by the Bermuda Government last week affirmed that we are out of recession. Gross domestic product — the sum of all the goods and services the Island produces — grew by 1.5 per cent in the second quarter of this year, the third successiv...

At the stroke of 11am yesterday, Bermuda fell silent for two minutes to honour our war dead. The tradition dates from the signing of the Armistice, which ended what was then called the Great War at “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleve...

This is an age where all manner of freedoms are being vigorously fought for. Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to bear and to not bear arms, freedom to love who you want and, more topically, freedom to marry who you want. Resolution o...

For an Island so small, it is remarkable that Bermuda produces anything that could be labelled “best in the world”. Yet, occasionally, we can genuinely lay claim to something that we, or one of our small number, does better than the other seven billi...

At first blush, red crepe paper poppies might seem to make for unlikely boutonnières. But at this time every year, they appear on the lapels of thousands of Bermuda residents in the run-up to Remembrance Day on November 11. That solemn public holiday...

It may be paradoxical but those who live on this Island are probably fitter than those in many other countries, but less healthy. Gyms abound, sport is very much a part of life and on any given morning and evening, joggers — the more serious athletes...

It is timely that the curtain is drawn this weekend on Rugby World Cup 2015 in England. Not because it feels like the 20-nation tournament has been going on for ever, with the first of 48 games having kicked off on September 18. But, rather, because ...

Tianjin is a Chinese port that many people in Bermuda may not even have heard of. Two months ago, a warehouse that stored thousands of tonnes of hazardous chemicals blew up there. The series of explosions killed 173 people, generated blast waves tha...

There is, said an Italian philosopher, nothing more difficult to engage in, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its outcome than taking the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. To be in the vanguard of change, to pursue an id...

It has been a little more than a week since the America’s Cup celebrations raised the roof. Not in their wildest dreams could those who organised the myriad of events accompanying the actual competition have envisaged such a response. Front Street ro...