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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...

With all the fuss being made over Eastern Counties cricket and over issues of good governance, there is an overriding concern of who is answerable to whom? Who are the players answerable to? Who are the umpires answerable to? Who is the Eastern Count...

The debate about our population and the economy needs to happen without further ado. Make no mistake, this issue relates directly to the Island’s economic sustainability, its ability to pay pensions and provide social services, to keep its public deb...

Mark Twain is as inextricably linked with the emergence of modern Bermuda as he is with the Mississippi River, whitewashing fences and fixed frog-jumping contests. His first book Innocents Abroad, a buoyant and beguiling non-fiction account of an ear...