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The period since 2008 has amounted to Bermuda’s Locust Years – the scriptural “years that the locusts hath eaten” — for both the Island as a whole and for too many of its inhabitants. A worldwide recession of almost unprecedented length and harshnes...

It’s been a Best of Times, Worst of Times few days for those responsible for stemming the flow of illegal drugs into the Island. A major shipment of heroin with an estimated street value of $1 million was seized at the weekend following what was evid...

“Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us … All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their time.” — Ecclesiasticus Those who attain an undeserved standing in any society never really overshadow those who...

Karl Rove certainly didn’t invent the polarising hardball tactics which so define the modern political landscape (that dubious distinction belongs to the very first elected official who successfully circumvented the logical faculties of some of the ...

Throughout our long history most Bermudians have had an intuitive understanding of the fact that if you protect the land and water around you, the land and water will return the favour. In fact, Bermuda has always been something of a trailblazer when...

“Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea.” —William Shakespeare “He was born ...

A multicoloured collection of national flags fluttering from car windows, attached to trucks and pinned to motorbikes is a sure sign that what is commonly referred to as “the greatest show on earth” is about to begin. Over the next month, the bars wi...

Friday, June 6, 2014, marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the date of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe and the hinge upon which all of the rest of modern history swings. German Field Marshal Erwin Marshal Erwin Rommel, overall commander...

David Wingate began to change the world, or at least a tiny speck of it at the easternmost end of Bermuda, when he was just a 15-year-old schoolboy. Teased by his classmates because of both his prominent, beaklike nose and equally pronounced love of ...