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The head of a shipping company last night hit out at the Government’s partnership with a US firm to create an international online shopping service. Kenny Thomson, the president of Mailboxes, said the deal meant that the Bermuda Post Office would sup...

Bermuda still has a reputation as a safe country despite a warning by US health authorities that Americans should steer clear of the island after a jump in coronavirus cases, the head of the Bermuda Tourism Authority said yesterday. Charles Jeffers I...

The US Centres for Disease Control yesterday warned travellers not to visit Bermuda after a massive rise in Covid-19 cases. The announcement came after the island was moved to Level 4 – “very high” risk – on the CDC’s travel advisory list. Stephen To...

Leaders must be held accountable for their actions if the rule of law is to prevail. For the military, accountability derives from civilian control over our armed forces. This is the governing principle of civil-military relations; it is central to o...

Upon the recent anniversary of 9/11 a few days ago, I sat down to place my thoughts on paper. We can all recall our own 9/11 stories and moments — those of us who were counted among the living then and old enough to discern what was happening before ...

With its withdrawal from Afghanistan complete, the United States is left trying to remember why it invaded the country in 2001, and to wonder what two decades of war accomplished. Ostensibly the key to the post-9/11 “war on terror”, the US occupation...

From his desk at the FBI's Washington Field Office, Pete Lapp could see smoke blackening the sky above the Pentagon. After the twin towers fell, a sight he and other agents had watched on a television in a supervisor's office, Lapp assumed they would...

The news flashed across dozens of wall-mounted screens as I stepped off the jet bridge into the airport terminal: US commandos had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The tenth anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001, was only a few months aw...

“The pen is mightier than the sword” is a word picture as a metaphor created by an English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, which characterises how powerful and superior effective words, information and even education can be in resolving conflict...

“We must guard against the unwarranted influence of the military-industrial complex ...the potential for disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” These prophetic words by former United States president Dwight Eisenhower reson...

Much of the world in the period of a week experienced traumatic events that left even those with a keen knowledge of international events astonished — with far more questions floating about than answers, especially when Afghanistan after 20 years saw...

As the American military pulled out of Afghanistan, Kabul fell with stunning speed to determined fighters with medieval desires about everything but the accoutrements of war. Taleban fighters with their long beards and long guns drove through the ci...