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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...

The international furore over the killing of Cecil the lion has forced mankind again to wrestle with its conscience. What Walter Palmer, the American dentist by day and hunter by night, set into motion on July 1 when the popular black-maned lion was ...

The seismic shifts occurring in the international insurance market are relevant to all residents, whether or not we have any direct connection to the Island’s most productive industry. This week’s events brought into sharp focus what happens when com...

Mark Twain’s aphorism about never putting off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow was intended as a sardonic rebuke to the chronically tardy, not a rallying cry. But Bermuda seems to have other ideas. Long the author’s second home, ...

Now that the dust has settled over 1½ days of “cricket” at Wellington Oval, on with the post mortem. Mother Nature gave us the mother of all scares with a week of rain before Cup Match, every day — and not simply your standard fare. She dropped it on...

It is to be hoped that Mother Nature has got her rains in early and we can now enjoy two bright and sunny days of Cup Match cricket at Wellington Oval without interruption. So what of the cricket? Little of that has been mentioned in this space this ...

Hearkening back to the jargon of his military days, Colin Powell once referred to optimism as the ultimate “force multiplier” in political life. He was slipping into Pentagon-speak for a capability which dramatically enhances (or multiplies) the prob...

This is Cup Match week. The teams have been selected, St George’s Cricket Club and its grounds are being made to look smart, and revellers are at the ready for festivities in the East End and all over the Island. The buzz of excitement is palpable. T...