“Do you know what the letters HSBC really stand for? Holy (insert appropriate expletive) the British are Coming.”
Anonymous friend.
“If Government was taking a one percent tax from the sale of the Bank of Bermuda, it would rake in $13 million. As th...
ON June 6, 1762, Great Britain conquered the Spanish Caribbean port of Havana, thus began the sovereign nation's 11-month occupation of Cuba.
Nearly three centuries following British admiral Charles Knowles' conquest, Havana now finds herself again u...
IF you remain somebody's colony, you should not be surprised that you will be treated like a colony. That was my first thought as I heard the Progressive Labour Party Government's reaction to the loud hint dropped by Governor Sir John Vereker that Be...
Premier Alex Scott has accused Government House of being "provocative" over public comments on Bermuda-UK relations.
Mr. Scott admitted to being surprised to see Governor Sir John Vereker's comments earlier this week, in which he called for "careful ...
HERE is, in physics, a phenomenon ? some say it is just a theory ? which scientists call "the butterfly effect". According to this principle, a butterfly flaps its wings in deepest Kenya and ultimately gives rise to a breeze in New York City; a gust ...
A former tennis pro involved in a car crash had his leg amputated as a result of alleged negligence by staff at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
And now, two years after the incident, Eldridge Smith, 75, has yet to receive compensation because Poli...
Even as he recovered from a severe stroke in the summer on 1953, the top priority for Sir Winston Churchill was to reschedule a Big Three summit of world leaders in Bermuda.
The legendary British prime minister's daughter, Lady Mary Soames, recounted...
Foreigners taking over
October 31, 2003
Dear Sir,
Thank for allowing me once again these few words in your column.
It is really time for a Government of Bermudians ? meaning people that were born on this Island to take a stand.
There is going to come...
Turks and Caicos Chief Minister Michael Misick urged Government to empower the people economically at the Progressive Labour Party's banquet on Saturday night.
And he encouraged the PLP to be all inclusive and operated on principles of integrity, tra...
Tomorrow, 50 Episcopal bishops are expected to consecrate Gene Robinson, the world's first divorced, openly homosexual man as a bishop of a major Christian denomination at a New Hampshire ice hockey rink, because an expected crowd of 6,000 can't fit ...
