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Each November, “Remembrance Day” in the United Kingdom honours the heroic efforts, achievements and sacrifices that were made in past wars. Remembrance Sunday is also marked by events such as memorial services, church services and parades. A national...

On November 5, Bermuda residents became stunningly aware of the radical vulnerability of our island’s economic success. For more than 30 years, international business has poured billions into the local money supply, infrastructure (buildings), gover...

Dear Sir, It has been a long while since I wrote a Letter to the Editor, but recent events in Bermuda have compelled me to come out of my hibernation. For the life of me, I cannot fathom why Bermuda, and in particular the Progressive Labour Party, se...

Dear Sir, The Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission is an independent body set up to oversee gaming regulations. Richard Schuetz and Alan Dunch have done an excellent job to date; so good a job in fact that Jamahl Simmons now wants to eliminate Mr Dunch b...

The following is an edited reprint of an essay the author wrote for an economic think-tank that is timely in lieu of the views in British Parliament of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in relation to Bermuda’s tax status The Britannica Concise Encyclopaed...

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s reaction to Catalonia’s independence referendum was as foolish as the vote was reckless. Catalan officials should never have scheduled the vote — but once they did, Spanish officials should not have tried to st...

Bermudians are, by and large, an independent, canny and resourceful people. In many ways we have long embodied what Theodore Roosevelt meant when he said that “far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work wor...

Everyone needs a job, from the time that a child is relatively small through to virtually the end of adult life. Work provides purpose and motivation: mentally, physically, financially, and sometimes, spiritually fulfilling. Work is not as we like t...

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, an advocate for the sexual revolution, is dead at 91. But the debates he embodied about sex and American liberalism are very much alive. On some significant social issues, Hefner was early to take what are today mainstrea...

Saudi Arabia announced this week that it will lift the ban on women driving, a policy that has long served as a symbol of the country’s unequal treatment of women. Saudi Arabia is the very last country in the world to do so. “Saudi Arabia allows wome...