Anyone who says it’s not possible to build a global business empire after starting out in tiny Bermuda should take a look at Ace Ltd. Last week’s announcement that the company had agreed to buy the Am...
Everyone loves a winner. We are no different in Bermuda as past masters in the art of backing a sure thing.
Such can be gleaned from an infamous quote by a supposed football supporter that was heard n...
The one-time wife of one member of Hollywood royalty, the mother of another and the mother-in-law of a third, in 1992 Bermuda-born actress Diana Douglas published a characteristically elegant memoir c...
For any new era to be given a chance to thrive, it requires the support staff to be in good working order. The Bermuda Government requires it, private enterprise requires it, and so, too, do the myria...
It was as remarkable and powerful a piece of presidential oratory as many of us have witnessed in our lifetimes, a transcendent moment in a profoundly transformational period in modern history.
Barack...
The opening shots of the American Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter outside Charleston, South Carolina, in 1861 when troops of the secessionist Confederacy bombarded Union defenders.
When the centen...
Death, admonished the poet John Donne, be not proud.
“Mighty and dreadful” though it is considered to be, death’s power is ultimately an illusion. The souls and memories of those it claims live on; th...
The thunder of gunfire in a historic Charleston church is echoing throughout Bermuda today. So are the howls of anguish and grief and disbelief.
On Wednesday night, a heavily armed white supremacist o...
Given the right tools and the proper determination, individuals can accomplish even the most seemingly impossible tasks.
“Give me a place to stand,” said one of the most legendary figures of classical...
Between regular visits to Bermuda in the early years of the 20th century, Mark Twain found time to dash off a droll letter to the editor of an American newspaper.
He good-naturedly upbraided the news...
