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All too often Bermuda’s politicians and their surrogates like to style themselves as the shark-oil barometers of the public mood. But, just as often, they are actually attempting to manipulate popular sentiment rather than simply measure and mirror i...

You would have to be blind or wilfully ignorant not to appreciate that something is happening. And that something very big is about to happen. A little short of ten months ago, it was said and written in copious fashion that Bermuda would become the ...

The news that Atlantic Tele-Networks (ATN), the American telecommunications company, has agreed a deal to take a controlling interest in KeyTech represents something of a vote of confidence in the Island’s economy. The Nasdaq stock exchange-listed co...

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 ...