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RG: In Our Opinion She was uncompromising in her conviction there should be no second-class citizenship for any Bermudians. For Carol Dowding Hill the rights of all were threatened when the rights of a single individual were curtailed. She would acce...

In Bermuda it’s never been uncommon for the buck to be passed hither, thither and yon. There have always been those among us who cheerfully accept credit for their successes ­­— even successes they only played minimal roles in — while side-stepping a...

The massacre at Tunisia’s Bardo National Museum on Wednesday didn’t just bear all the hallmarks of modern extremist terror, it was an almost precise re-enactment of one of the first such large-scale atrocities. In 1997 six insurgents disguised as mem...

The annual ordeal by tedium that is the Parliamentary Budget debate is now behind us. As usual, there was much in the way of grandstanding, sub-Gilbert & Sullivan political slapstick and contrived emoting. But precious little was heard about practic...

In 1940 the poet Edna St Vincent Millay offered up a furious rebuke in verse to a still-powerful Isolationist lobby determined to keep America artificially distanced from the violent convulsions then rocking Europe, convulsions which would soon threa...

It’s been almost 70 years since Bermuda experienced war at first hand. The entire Island was mobilised during the Second World War. The entire population was prepared, vigilant and ready to meet the dangers which threatened the Island. Hundreds of yo...

There’s a fine old Churchillism about the inconsistency of officialdom — “so they (the government) go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent” ...

It’s called the Crisis of Rising Expectations and it’s been a well-established rule of a thumb in political science circles for decades. Distilled to basics, it states that if expectations start rising at a rate exceeding the ability of a society to ...

For almost a century it has been as much a herald of the Bermudian spring as returning Longtails kiting across clearing skies or the freesias which shyly begin poking their multicoloured heads through the long, rain-saturated winter grass. The Agricu...

While America’s economy has technically been out of recession for six years, it is only relatively recently that the recovery has started to make itself felt at a grassroots level. The number of long-term unemployed, those who simply gave up looking ...