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For the first time in many years, investors in the hospitality sector are looking at the cost/benefit analyses of doing business in Bermuda and deciding the Island is a sound bet. The Green family are pumping millions of dollars into Hamilton’s Princ...

Even the most scrupulously law-abiding of Bermuda’s residents is unlikely to be entirely happy with all of Bermuda’s laws. But in a community based on the rule of law, we are all bound to respect and observe even legislation which we fundamentally op...

Encouraging voters to organise, march and rally in defence of their interests is always a healthy thing in a democracy, particularly a lethargic one like ours. In theory, Bermudians are of course free to make their voices heard and their opinions kno...

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” ...