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“The truth is an offence but not a sin.” — Bob Marley Below are some of the constant narratives expounded by those closely related to the OBA: “We need more boots on the ground.” ­— Opposition leader Craig Cannonier “Swing open the gates to the out...

This is part two of the Pondstraddler Life Financial Planning Series looking at Bermudian owners of US real estate who want to sell, and want to know what the ramifications of doing so are. The first part was published last month, and a link to that ...

One early morning last week, I received this message from Irina who lives in Ukraine: “Nina, I’ve been sick for a long time and I am taking a medicine with a sedative, and it makes me feel like a vegetable! Yesterday, I looked at your daily videos o...

Recently, JP Morgan introduced its own cryptocurrency, JPM Coin. This is big news for the fintech and cryptocurrency community because it showcases how mainstream players are experimenting with the technology. In order to understand what this could...

Although sport has always been considered one of the unifying activities in Bermuda, much has changed in recent years, with incidents of poor conduct not only from spectators. Some participants have also fallen short of what should be expected from t...

This is part one of the Pondstraddler Life Financial Planning Series looking at the ramifications for Bermudian owners of US real estate who want to sell. A reader writes: About ten years ago, we purchased a vacation house in the United States. We wa...

This week has been a little chaotic. We’re on the cusp of Season 13 for Beat the Couch and I feel as if I’ve been sending e-mails at 1,000mph. I think every mum (working or not) has moments where they feel totally torn, but this week I had Belle off ...

Why do we travel? What pushes us to fly for many hours, sometimes around the whole world? Before any trip my heart always beats joyfully and I can’t fell asleep in anticipation of something unusual, new and exotic. I know that after the trip I will b...

A 90-year old widow with a developmentally disabled adult child struggles with the everyday cost of living while trying to make sense of the proposed government budget tax and social service increases. This is a hypothetical composite case based on r...

As a follow-up to last week’s missive about community service hours, it gives great pleasure to state that over the weekend a number of young and not so young men came out to assist with the scraping and painting of a wall in Green Acres, Devonshire....