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Beginnings and endings should always dovetail in any well-constructed drama. And there was a touch of theatrical symmetry involved as family and friends gathered in Bermuda last week to pay their final respects to Diana Douglas. Held on the very eve...

Bermudians at home and abroad will have spent the past 48 hours nervously studying updates on the progress of Hurricane Joaquin. The weather system, which at one stage over the weekend was a fraction short of being a Category 5 storm, proved not to b...

When Age Concern’s Claudette Fleming told this newspaper last week that seniors were fed up with being preached to, she was probably expressing a widespread frustration among older people. It seems that seniors are all too frequently viewed as a gro...

History has an unfortunate tendency of playing out as tragedy before it eventually comes to be understood as an ongoing morality tale. The historical record is, in the main, a long, bleak account of man’s inhumanity to man. And even humankind’s dar...

Overgrown grass, weeds and roadside vegetation has been a hotter topic than usual this summer. The state of the Island’s parks and public open spaces has, at times, left a lot to be desired. Some areas have become virtually impassable jungles of long...

Every generation likes to consider itself to be more intelligent, more capable and entirely more virtuous than the one which preceded it. And every generation likes to think it has either attained or is close to attaining the very pinnacle of human p...

Great employers deserve their moment in the spotlight. Their immense value to the community all too frequently flies under the radar. The issue of labour relations only seems to make the news when there is a dispute or when employees are found to be ...

It’s September and Bermuda’s children crept unwillingly back to school this month. Doubtless many of them are already counting the days until the Christmas holidays begin — as are their parents, although for altogether different reasons. The start of...

Bermuda can count itself fortunate to be home to the Green family. Their purchase of the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, the $90 million makeover that has followed, the development of the hotel’s beach club on the site of the former Sonesta hotel in ...

Let’s be absolutely clear about what we’re asking for here. We are not calling for an outright ban on helmets with tinted visors. Nor are we calling for a ban on full-faced helmets. What we want is to rid the streets of the dark-tinted visors and tho...