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Representing an island nation is difficult at the best of times. Pitting your wits and skills often against the best in the world, and in the knowledge that virtually any country you come up against has a far larger pool to choose from can be deflati...

By the mid-1970s, neglect, time and the elements had inflicted more punishment on the massive ramparts and buildings of the Keep at Bermuda’s old Royal Naval Dockyard than any of the potential military enemies it had been built to guard against. The ...

It is not uncommon these days to hear Bermudian politicians on the campaign trail pledge to introduce policy regimes based around “consultation”, “collaboration” and “transparency” if their party is elected to power. Sadly, experience would suggest t...

As a number of commentators have crassly but not inaccurately noted over the years, the storm clouds of 1992’s monstrous Hurricane Andrew had a shimmering silver lining for Bermuda. When that Category 5 storm buzz-sawed its way across Florida almost ...

Just as no man is an island, no island is an island in this increasingly interconnected world. Consequently, Sunday night’s gunfire in faraway Las Vegas reverberated here with a chilling immediacy. The indiscriminate slaughter on the streets of that...

Bermudians are, by and large, an independent, canny and resourceful people. In many ways we have long embodied what Theodore Roosevelt meant when he said that “far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work wor...

Even during this island’s very palmiest days in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there were people living on the outskirts of hope, those who had been left behind as remarkable economic growth brought unparalleled opportunity for most Bermudians. In m...

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Sir Winston Churchill The most controversial yet legal form of dismissal in the noble man’s sport of cricket is commonly known as the “Mankad”. However, the ...

Thirty years ago this week the island learnt the most valuable lesson in self-reliance in its modern history and the Royal Bermuda Regiment came of age. On the evening of September 24, 1987, Bermuda residents went to bed assured by weather forecaster...

The Atlantic hurricane season is a humbling annual reminder that nature remains wild, unpredictable and highly dangerous despite any pretensions we may have about taming the world around us. And certainly the uncontrolled fits of insanity the natural...