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John F Kennedy was the consummate helmsman, figuratively and literally. His long political career, first as a Congressman and US Senator, then as America’s President, was a case study in steering and trimming his sails to take maximum advantage of co...

Before they took their rental mopeds out on the roads for the first time, local livery cycle operators in the 1960s and ‘70s used to remind wary visitors that Bermudians drove on the left side of the road. At least until the bars closed. Then they dr...

In a civil society like Bermuda, one where the liberties and privileges of citizens are protected by constitutional authority and the rule of law, we will always be obliged to respect the right of others to differ. And in a society based on diversity...

Seventy years ago today — April 15, 1945 — British troops entered the fairy tale town of Celle in Lower Saxony and abruptly found themselves on the threshold of hell. Outside Celle the British units, which included a number of Bermudians who had volu...

For the last three years the Corporation of Hamilton’s actions have brought to mind an endlessly meandering joke in search of a punchline. Now we’ve finally had the pay-off to the excruciatingly extended build-up and the joke, one in the worst imagin...

One of the major events to celebrate the creation of the modern Bermuda Regiment took place yesterday. Poor weather forced a change of venue from Government House to the Ruth Seaton James Auditorium at CedarBridge Academy for the Reunion Concert to c...

Sir John Swan recently proposed Bermuda convene a round table of political, corporate and community leaders to determine common approaches to the common problems now confronting our economy and society. The Island’s long-time former leader made the...

Just as Oscar Wilde said that he did not want to live in a world where Utopia wasn’t marked on the map, so an increasing number of tourists are opting to travel to destinations which can’t properly be said to fall within the province of conventional ...

The seafarers and shipwrights today’s Bermudians are descended from would have been intimately familiar with a venerable nautical term, one which dates from Roman times: “When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wi...

At one time Bermuda had become so closely identified with this season of rebirth and renewal it was routinely referred to as “The Easter Isle” in the North American press. By the end of the 19th century, Bermuda dominated fully 90 per cent of the Eas...