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It was one of those watershed moments in world history that gave the slow march of events in Bermuda an abrupt push in a new and entirely unexpected direction. Britain’s final acceptance and recognition of American Independence in 1783 meant, among o...

The just concluded murder trial of Kiahna Trott-Edwards is as good a case as any to exemplify the depth of societal breakdown in Bermuda. Two people, unknown to one another before that fateful day on September 8 last year, thrust into a narrative tha...

“You can say what you want about me, but don’t you dare talk about my momma.” Those are the well-worn words of many a Bermudian man, who might allow the most vile insult to be mouthed about his father, but then will “go Casemates” to stand up for his...

Mark Twain’s aphorism about never putting off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow was intended as a sardonic rebuke to the chronically tardy, not a rallying cry. But Bermuda seems to have other ideas. Long the author’s second home, ...

Long overdue reforms to a Dickensian legal system. Pending hikes in health insurance premiums. A potentially seismic shift in Bermuda’s energy policy. There’s been a flurry of genuinely important developments on the political front in recent days. B...

One of the weaknesses of democracy is that it encourages our political leaders to shy away from taking politically difficult actions that would serve the interests of their country in the long term, but would cost them popularity with voters in the ...

Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeatedly miss its opportunities. In Bermuda’s case, our general lack of familiarity with our Island’s long story has repeatedly undercut efforts to put the Island on the map as a cultural tourism destinati...

The Island’s history, culture and folkways are so inextricably intertwined with the ocean around us that no less an observer than Charles Dickens remarked 160 years ago: “Every Bermudian, being born within a mile of the water, was bred amphibious ......