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There is an increasing sense of exasperation evident among the captains of Bermuda’s offshore industry. The same irritation is also being expressed by employees of the sector’s local satellite businesses as well as by a growing number of professiona...

Virtue isn’t just its own reward, certainly when it comes to maintaining above board political, business and regulatory infrastructures: the many economic, social and cultural benefits that ensue can actually be quantified. In fact, watchdog organisa...

There is a theory doing the rounds that it will take “the wrong person” to be shot and killed before this island readily can get to grips with the gun violence that has now claimed 30 lives since May 2009. What qualifies as the wrong person if neithe...

So it has come to this. Flora Duffy lining up against the best that the world has to offer in the Olympic women’s triathlon and doing so justifiably as a bona fide medal contender. Not since Brian Wellman and Clarance Saunders were in their heyday ha...

Mark Twain recommended we strive to live our lives so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry. As was so often the case, the advice offered by one of Bermuda’s favourite adopted sons was spot on. We live in a decidedly schizophrenic world...

The story that appeared in the sports pages of this newspaper on Thursday informing of the exit of Bermuda from the Concacaf Under-15 Girls Championship in Orlando, Florida, was accompanied by an inappropriate headline, for which we are deeply sorry....

Factional wars and persistent rumours of factional wars have been constants in Bermuda party politics in recent years. This is not entirely surprising. We are living in unsettled and fractious times, after all. Some of the prevailing tensions are b...

Bermuda wasn’t your father’s Oldsmobile. In Stephen Birnbaum’s expert opinion, by the late 1980s the island’s tourism product was actually something closer akin to your great-grandfather’s Model T Ford. He might have been parodying a popular advert...

“Blessed is the status quo” — this is a political beatitude sacred to lawmakers worldwide. While they routinely campaign to the extremes, gleefully abandoning moderation to fire up their bases, if elected most pragmatic political figures resolutely a...

For eight brave souls, and the two who will follow when the world’s best Paralympians roll into Rio de Janeiro next month, these are the absolute best of times. When the Olympic flame is lit tonight to mark the official opening of the Games of the XX...