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The recent decision by John Rankin, the Governor — at the request of David Burt, the Premier — to give the Reverend Charles Vinton Monk a full pardon for his conviction for criminal libel rights an historic wrong and sets an important precedent for t...

Much fuss is being made over whether Stephen Corbishley, the Commissioner of Police, is right to throw the full weight of the Bermuda Police Service behind the Pride parade next month. But while there may be merit to either side of these incessant a...

Bermuda’s public access to information regime faces its biggest challenge since it was passed into law nine years ago. The announcement by Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, that he will not release the KPMG report into San...

If it wasn’t already obvious, Friday’s session of Parliament made the Progressive Labour Party’s distaste for public access to information, and, let’s face it, accountability, abundantly clear. Despite being the party that tabled and passed the legis...

The knock on Bermuda football historically is that we have produced some fantastic individuals but few fantastic teams. Generational players but rarely a team for the generations. Kyle Lightbourne, one of the few who could be said to fit into the for...

To listen to our legislators tying themselves in knots amid a sea of hypocrisy over whether the newly established Bermuda Championship will be a good thing for the island in ways that the 35th America’s Cup was not was to invite every urge to guzzle ...

According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, out of the 70,237 drug overdose deaths in 2017, nearly one third — or 23,139 — involved cocaine, psychostimulants, or both. From 2016 to 2017, death rates involving coc...

Cheryl-Ann Griffin. Remember her? The Shelly Bay resident who was central to the protests in her neighbourhood that led first to the withdrawal of Tom Steinhoff’s development plans at Shelly Bay Beach and then to the Bermuda Tourism Authority’s very ...

Stephen Corbishley, the Commissioner of Police, and Dexter Smith, the Editor of The Royal Gazette, met yesterday to thrash out an arrangement that has resulted in Mr Corbishley withdrawing his complaint to the Media Council of Bermuda in relation to ...

It was the news that we had been fearing but had been loath to accept: that Flora Duffy would not be at the start line to defend her title at the MS Amlin World Triathlon Bermuda in less than two weeks’ time. The injury to her foot has been so aggrav...