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It is odd 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 annual Cup Match partitions Bermuda into two opposing camps, the spirit that neverth...

The accidental settlement of Bermuda in 1609 helped to inspire “The Tempest”, an ageing William Shakespeare’s masterful farewell to the art and magic of the stage. In the play, a remote island is transformed into a transcendent metaphor for the encl...

It’s been said that history is to a people what memory is to an individual. Just as when a person suffers amnesia, a community that doesn’t know where it has been, will have no clue where it is, let alone where it is going. It will become disoriente...

This week, thousands of athletes will start to descend on Bermuda to take part in the Island Games. With them will also come a posse of press people wielding cameras and video cameras. First impressions will count. It is what the athletes and the med...

All the unions in Bermuda are meeting this week to go through the details of a Government pay offer. It is a crucial week — the decision, or decisions, made will have significant ramifications for the Island Accept what Government is offering and the...

It appears almost Thatcher-esque and, while there may be good intentions, there are an awful lot of unanswered questions. In a shake-up of financial assistance, if you are unemployed you may be referred for drug abuse assessment and you may be requir...

Workers go on a sympathy work stoppage which results in a backlog of garbage. They receive two-and-a-half days pay for the four-day stoppage. To clear the backlog, they are given overtime. Is there something wrong with that opening paragraph? How man...

Attorney General Mark Pettingill has now apologised for statements in the House of Assembly when he criticised religiously motivated opponents of amendments to the Human Rights Act. Although no doubt a chastening experience, it was the correct course...

In the eyes of many around the world, Bermuda is probably now demonised as the so-called tax haven that shields multinational companies from the billions of dollars they owe. The billions that could go to job-creating initiatives in countries suffer...