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The second in a multi-part series on sustainable development in Bermuda. Like the drowned sailor in Shakespeare’s Bermuda-inspired Tempest whose bones were transformed into coral, the moribund local tourism economy underwent a sea-change of its own ...

RG: In our opinion This is the first of a multi-part series ****** Bermudian politics has long been viewed as a tragedy by those who feel, a comedy by those who think. Recently, though, even those thinking men and women among us with the most exte...

In both his contemporaneous public statements and private writings British statesman Winston Churchill took to describing the First World War in Biblical terms. Churchill routinely invoked Armageddon when referring to the 1914-1918 conflict which l...

It is typically Bermudian that this tiny Island, divided in so many other ways, could find the stuff of national unity in, of all things, a two-day game of cricket. But even as the just completed Cup Match partitions the Island into two opposing camp...

A rigid inflexibility of mind. A lack of receptiveness to fresh ideas. A tendency to fall back on tried-and- failed beliefs regardless of new circumstances or information. As US President John F Kennedy once said, we often tend to subject all facts w...

RG: In our opinion Bermuda is an island where the rule of law supposedly prevails, not mob rule. And the ultimatum issued to Premier Michael Dunkley by the People’s Campaign and the Bermuda Trade Union Congress on Friday — suspend controversial grant...

Jeremy Frith was a man of the soil, a farmer and conservationist whose bond with the good Bermuda earth was almost elemental in its intensity. Mr. Frith was also a man of letters and something of a latterday troubador who celebrated his love for (and...

Nothing has been demonstrated to unite a divided community more effectively than identifying a common enemy. And demagogues, opportunists and garden variety political hacks the world over have a long, unhappy history of exploiting the latent anxietie...

Arthur Rankin Jr’s name will forever be synonymous with Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. The Bermudian producer and director’s evergreen 1964 TV special based on the popular song launched his career and introduced his trademark story arcs about non-co...

Politicians the world over have a singular talent for identifying old grievances which can be depended on to yield occasional rewards in the form of popular support and votes. Whether this gift owes more to a vulture’s nose than an eagle’s eye is lar...