AT first blush, he may have seemed a miscast warrior. A soft-spoken connoisseur of good food, better wines and the fine arts, a scholar possessed of a formidable and wide-ranging intellect, the model of courtliness, Dr. Stanley Ratteray might more ea...
February 4, 2003
I FEEL it is fair to say that the success of a newspaper can be judged by how well informed its readers are. I, like others, have benefited by the Opinion column in the Mid-Ocean News and from the input of other contributors from tim...
If the words "Sarbanes-Oxley Act" make your eyes glaze over, or if you think that this is a subject that only accountants need to concern themselves with, it may be time to "wake up and smell the coffee".
When Senator Paul Sarbanes and representative...
Tributes have been paid to former United Bermuda Party executive officer Bob Law, who died at the Lahey Clinic in Boston after suffering from cancer.
Former premier Sir John Swan described Mr. Law as a meticulous, organised and articulate individual ...
OUR correspondent, Observer of St. George's, last week criticised a column I wrote that described the waning of Yasser Arafat's influence on the politics of the Middle East (, January 17).
I hope you will allow me a little space in which to debate so...
CONTINUING controversy surrounds the 1928 Tucker's Town land expropriations. The latest instalments in this long-running saga appeared in a recent Bermuda Sun front page story which featured Eugene Stovell recalling the recollection of his grandmothe...
Costs of playing cowboy
January 1, 2002
Dear Sir,
I was wondering (hopefully, I guess) when George W. is going to come out of this John Wayne wet dream he's having before it's too late and he realises that pretty soon Joe Public won't stick his nose ...
THE top international story of 2002, in my view, is the growing perception of the world's estrangement from America's role as the world's only remaining superpower. This has not always been the case. There was a time when the United States, despite i...
I'm like the Johnny Appleseed of beer," says Jim Koch, chief executive of the Boston Beer Company, as he pours the perfect glass of beer in a Bermuda bar.
His beer is exported all over the world, and this week the whole company is celebrating a succe...
On October 23, 2002, the front page of The Royal Gazette, the main daily Bermuda newspaper, proudly recorded that local gangsters had been foiled by the legendary efficiency of the Bermuda Police. Fifty-six boxes of eggs had been intercepted, alleged...
