Last week, with encouragement from President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar would not be allowed to visit the country as planned because of their opposition to the I...
In last week’s article I alluded to the fact that a measurable number of Bermuda residents are opting to retire overseas, so it seems only appropriate that I follow this with a few thoughts regarding this subject.
I will say up front that I am not a...
DATE: Aug 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Robin Trimingham
Visitors to St George’s can meet characters from Bermuda’s 1775 Gunpowder Plot over the next few weeks.
Several dozen men broke into an unguarded ammunition magazine above Tobacco Bay, St George’s, on August 14, 1775 and stole more than 100 casks of ...
A grassroots movement could spark the Cabinet to take the lead on independence if island-wide talks reveal enough support for the cause, political sources have claimed.
It was believed that interest in a formal break from Britain had grown in recent ...
This is the second in a new, possibly monthly, series on the millennial trend to becoming financially independent, retire early (FIRE!). We first covered this phenomenon on July 27.
FIRE! is a very real financial movement in its lifestyle changing a...
We would like to endorse and commend the Regulatory Authority of Bermuda for its decision in the recently released first Bermuda integrated resource plan to reject liquefied natural gas as an option and for committing Bermuda’s electricity generation...
Eleven days. That is the time it took from a Puerto Rican news organisation’s publication of nearly 900 pages of devastating documents to a governor’s forced resignation.
In between the two events were the furious protests of hundreds of thousands of...
DATE: Jul 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Margaret Sullivan
Surprise! Fire — short for Financial Independence, Retire Early, is not about us anxious-about-retiring oldsters.
Nor is Fire about Fireworks, but a new millennial finance movement, generating a heightened global surge of interest (and dedicated fol...
Progressive Labour Party leader Leonard Frederick Wade was a teacher turned lawyer, whose true calling was politics. An early member of the PLP, he served the party in many capacities before becoming its leader. He was Opposition leader for 11 years....
A charter of rights for seniors is a “landmark achievement” for Bermuda, the Premier said yesterday.
David Burt said: “Three overachieving themes drive the charter we have signed today — dignity, rights and responsibilities.
“As a society, we should...
