SEVEN years ago, Bermuda was the recipient of a remarkable award when the town and the forts of St. George’s Parish were designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Like many insular societies, we perhaps think we are a chosen people and that such an...
NEW YORK — Zimbabwe’s government is intimidating, arresting and beating lawyers in an attempt to destroy the beleaguered political opposition’s last line of defence, one of the country’s leading attorneys said Wednesday.Although President Robert Muga...
RECENTLY on the BBC I heard an interesting debate centred around the ongoing attempt by international media magnate Rupert Murdoch to wrest control of the Dow Jones Company which, among other things, publishes the respected and highly influential fin...
THE Jamaican Association will host its first annual Mother’s Day cruise tomorrow night, according to JA president Ralston Wright , writes Walter Brown.“Mother’s Day is every day but we wanted to do something extra special for them this year and we d...
Around 60 non-profit organisations will come together to throw one of the biggest parties in Bermuda — and to benefit local charities.
It will be hosted by the American Society, a Bermuda-registered charity founded in 1953, with the aim of fostering ...
The Auditor General wants his office to become a legislatively independent entity, and he cites the row over office space last year as Exhibit A in the case for why it is necessary.
The call for greater independence comes in one section the Auditor G...
HARARE (Reuters) — President Robert Mugabe has dismissed criticism from the country’s Catholic bishops as “nonsense” and warned that his government could start treating the clergy as political foes.In a pastoral letter last month, the Zimbabwe Cathol...
‘Son of the Soil’ Dr. Pauulu Kamarakafego (Roosevelt Brown) will be memorialised on Parliament Hill today in a tree planting ceremony.
The late Dr.. Kamarakafego served in Parliament as a PLP MP from 1968-1972 but spent most of his life in developing...
The independence of Bermuda-based reinsurer Alea’s directors has been called into question over payments made to private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Fortress, the group buying out the reinsurer for an agreed $162 million bid, according t...
Cabinet Minister Randy Horton flies back today to face controversy surrounding his branch’s decision to dump him as Progressive Labour Party candidate which one party source has described as a “stitch up”.
It was claimed last night that the “unpreced...
