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Ever since union leader Chris Furbert let slip on Labour Day that someone “very dear to us” had his work permit expire and was waiting to learn if it would be renewed, the saga of the Reverend Nicholas Tweed has been played out like a highly predicta...

It would be equally naive and disingenuous to proclaim that this is a time for healing in Bermuda. With Christmas falling so soon after the “Pepper Spray Protests”, and our police and politicians in government walking on eggshells, it would take some...

When Andrew Bascome embraced Rastafarianism in the late 1980s, it was the beginning of a healing period that would not reach maturity until Monday morning. We may never know what inspired the man to utter the three words that changed a run-of-the-mil...

“You don’t want to mess with us. There are people with ammunition; they may come here — that’s what they told me. I tried to calm them down; they will shoot. They will come.” If December 2 was a day to forget, or one that will live in infamy for Berm...

March 2016 played host to the Pathways to Status Bill. December 2016, only two days young, the poor lass, has delivered the airport redevelopment legislation. The common denominator? Neither political process was allowed to go forward because of unla...

The term “have your cake and eat it too” is one that resonates throughout all Bermudian homes. But, particularly in the home of one Marc Bean, former leader of the Progressive Labour Party, it is hard to disavow the inclination that Christmas has com...

For everyone in Bermuda on October 27, 1962, it suddenly seemed the end wasn’t nigh, it was here. At precisely 6.36 that morning, a massive thundercrack explosion at the East End reverberated throughout the island. It was immediately followed by a ...

Mark Twain, that most American of American national treasures, celebrated what was to be his final Thanksgiving, in Bermuda on November 25, 1909. Already in failing health — he died the next March at the age of 74 — Twain dined with his Bermuda hosts...

The saying goes that those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Called out for their alleged inaction in the recent disturbance at Somerset Cricket Club, the Bermuda Police Service hit back through senior officials, including the Commissi...

Now that the dust has settled on events in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles and reality has hit home that Bermuda is a bona fide Division Four nation from a world cricket perspective, eyes turn instinctively to where to next for our nati...