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The best actors possess a curious duality, one predicated on the contradictory need for self-exposure and self-protection. They are “wide open, yet with no breaches in their armour”, as one renowned critic termed this paradoxical quality. Defencele...

It has to be presumed that Ice Queen did not provide the bladed object that played a significant role in the death of Johnathan Darrell early Saturday morning. Nor can it be presumed that it was the Paget fast-food facility that implored hordes of pe...

A funny thing happened at St David’s County Cricket Club last Saturday. The second round of the Eastern Counties Cup was scheduled and an actual cricket match broke out. Far from the shambles they were in the final last season, Flatts Victoria Recrea...

War is always a great evil, but as even pacifist Bertrand Russell conceded, under some extreme circumstances it may actually be the lesser of two evils. The Second World War [1939-1945] was a case study in just such circumstances. The entire world wa...

Jessica Lewis returns to Bermuda today. Remember her? You know, the 22-year-old who set the pulses racing when she smashed the record in the T53 100 metres wheelchair race at the Parapan American Games in Toronto last Thursday. Her performance was go...

Today marks a watershed moment in the history of The Royal Gazette and its approach to a pastime that has sustained its popularity among our citizens over the past three decades and more, but has struggled to command column inches in the only daily n...

“You can say what you want about me, but don’t you dare talk about my momma.” Those are the well-worn words of many a Bermudian man, who might allow the most vile insult to be mouthed about his father, but then will “go Casemates” to stand up for his...

At long last, the Bermuda economy is showing signs of thawing from the permafrost of a six-year recession. Last week’s gross domestic product (GDP) statistics for the first quarter showed the economy grew by an inflation-adjusted 2.2 per cent year ov...

Ours is not a time of robust self-confidence and national pride. The prevailing mood is one of muted pessimism and concern; fatalism and resignation have largely replaced faith in ourselves and our country. For decades the buoyant Bermudian self-imag...

It has long been said that the youth are our greatest asset. When adults fumble over themselves with maddening consistency, it is to the fresh-faced that we turn for new perspective. When those whom we look up to give us little to be proud of, it is...