In a civil society like Bermuda, one where the liberties and privileges of citizens are protected by constitutional authority and the rule of law, we will always be obliged to respect the right of oth...
Seventy years ago today — April 15, 1945 — British troops entered the fairy tale town of Celle in Lower Saxony and abruptly found themselves on the threshold of hell.
Outside Celle the British units, ...
For the last three years the Corporation of Hamilton’s actions have brought to mind an endlessly meandering joke in search of a punchline.
Now we’ve finally had the pay-off to the excruciatingly exten...
One of the major events to celebrate the creation of the modern Bermuda Regiment took place yesterday.
Poor weather forced a change of venue from Government House to the Ruth Seaton James Auditorium a...
Sir John Swan recently proposed Bermuda convene a round table of political, corporate and community leaders to determine common approaches to the common problems now confronting our economy and societ...
Just as Oscar Wilde said that he did not want to live in a world where Utopia wasn’t marked on the map, so an increasing number of tourists are opting to travel to destinations which can’t properly be...
The seafarers and shipwrights today’s Bermudians are descended from would have been intimately familiar with a venerable nautical term, one which dates from Roman times: “When a man does not know what...
At one time Bermuda had become so closely identified with this season of rebirth and renewal it was routinely referred to as “The Easter Isle” in the North American press.
By the end of the 19th centu...
For the first time in many years, investors in the hospitality sector are looking at the cost/benefit analyses of doing business in Bermuda and deciding the Island is a sound bet.
The Green family are...
Even the most scrupulously law-abiding of Bermuda’s residents is unlikely to be entirely happy with all of Bermuda’s laws.
But in a community based on the rule of law, we are all bound to respect and ...