Dear Sir,
Recently it was announced by the British Government that Bermuda’s first woman and first black governor will take over the job this year. Rena Lalgie, the director of Britain’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation at the Treasury, w...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
This article continues our discussion of post-Covid-19 recovery with thoughts of everything returning to the old normal, a semblance of normal, or the new normal, or something quite different again.
No one really knows how recovery will completely s...
As statues come down everywhere and right-of-centre pundits waggle their fingers and say they told us so, it is important to try to draw distinctions. After all, when you topple George Washington from his pedestal — which many argued would never happ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Stephen L. Carter
A former United States Consul-General to Bermuda who played a big role in a financial turning point in the island’s history was remembered this week as a valuable friend.
Sir John Swan, the island’s longest-serving premier, said that Max Friedersdorf...
The whole Covid-19 crisis has seemed unreal, from beginning to where we are now, for those relatively unaffected by health or job worries.
We are all probably functioning on “hope for the best” basis at this point in time.
The gradual, monitored sma...
First, I cannot make an apology for my opinion. It’s my qualified assessment, while realising there are levels along a full spectrum of racial attitudes — some more humanly evolved than others.
I therefore speak to the lowest level of that spectrum,...
Bermuda’s first woman and first black governor will take over the job later this year, the British Government revealed yesterday.
Rena Lalgie, the director of the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation at the Treasury, will succeed John Ra...
With attention focused on the uproar caused by the death of George Floyd in the United States and the continued Covid-19 crisis, many may have missed the mini-Cabinet shuffle that took place last week.
In normal times, this would have received more a...
DATE: Jun 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
Scylla and Charybdis were monsters in Greek mythology — one a whirlpool and the other a six-headed creature — situated on either side of a narrow channel. If mariners avoided one danger, they were certain to be caught and destroyed by the other, and ...
DATE: May 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
Has anyone noticed that no one to date has come forward with an economic recovery plan? Please note, we are not saying there have not been any efforts of relief at all, or that there is no attempt to mitigate the Covid-19 effects on the economy, but ...
