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He could have been forgiven tears of joy for having engineered a scientific feat of almost unfathomable difficulty and unsurpassed brilliance. Having successfully landed a robot probe which had travelled four billion miles onto the surface of a two-m...

With its laid-back way of life and the easy charm which is an intrinsic part of our cultural DNA, Bermuda has never been a community much associated with violence-prone sociopaths. On the contrary, Bermudians have a well-earned reputation for graciou...

At the stroke of 11am this morning, Bermuda fell silent for two minutes to honour our war dead. The tradition dates from the Armistice, which ended what was then called the Great War on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in...

“A most dreadful tempest (and) hideous began to blow … at length (it) did beat all light from heaven, which like an hell of darkness turned black upon us … For four and twenty hours the storm in a restless tumult had blown so exceedingly as we could...

Just last week Bermuda was patting itself on the back as the end of what had been forecast to be be a slower-than-normal hurricane season approached. Once again it looked as if we might run the annual June-November gauntlet without experiencing the ...

RG: In our opinion Bermuda has long demonstrated it really does possess such stuff as dreams are made on. The Island has served as a seemingly inexhaustible muse for writers, poets and artists over the course of more than four centuries. Scarcely ha...

Reality, it’s been said, is that which doesn’t go away even when you stop believing in it. Substituting comforting fantasies for hard-edged realities may be a source of short-term solace to those whose preferred method of dealing with challenging, co...

There have been hopeful signs of late that Bermuda’s long identity crisis as a tourism destination may finally be approaching some kind of successful resolution. After 30 years of increasingly desperate Tourism Ministry attempts to market Bermuda as ...

RG: In our opinion “They believed us and perished for it. Our statecraft, our learning Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning.” – Rudyard Kipling In the course of less than one desperate hour on the morning of September 22, 1914 a l...

Bermudian politics once held the anticipatory suspense of an empty stage at curtain time along with the unlimited promise of freeing the Island from the heavy burden of its past. In the 1960s and ’70s Parliament went from being a rubber-stamp for dec...