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Bermuda was once more caught up in an indiscriminate hail of fire loosely aimed at offshore financial centres this week after the global coverage of tax avoidance by wealthy people known as the Panama Papers. Bermuda was not mentioned in the stories ...

As Somerset Trojans prepared to bow out of the Caribbean Club Championship in Haiti in late February, coach Kieshon Smith reopened a very stale can of worms. Not unimportant, mind, but stale all the same, for the lack of attention given to his concer...

Mark Twain, arguably Bermuda’s first and most celebrated repeat visitor, didn’t overstate matters at all when he remarked that lack of money is actually the root of all evil. Twain’s wry assessment is borne out by the direct and indirect effects of t...

When Bermuda reaches a world-class level in any field, it is something that should be celebrated. Last week, this scale of achievement occurred, but it would have gone unnoticed by many. There were no medals awarded, no pomp and ceremony. That’s per...

In the throes of the work stoppage that brought Bermuda to a standstill, rumours circulated that senior persons in the Progressive Labour Party and Bermuda Industrial Union had a bit of a falling out over how to proceed, especially with the Governmen...

Bermuda was once known as the “Easter Isle” for a million or so good reasons. From the late 19th century until the early 1960s, that was the number of lily blooms and bulbs the island exported to North America and other parts of the world every Easte...

Bermuda could learn a thing or two from our fellow British Overseas Territory, the Cayman Islands. There are many similarities between the two of us, but it is clear that Cayman has been outperforming us economically since the global financial crisis...

“In a democratic country possessing representative institutions, sometimes it is necessary to defer to the opinions of other people.”;— Winston Churchill For a full week the drumbeat of discontent grew louder by the day; not just on the streets of H...

Government should listen to the people. That’s what we’ve been hearing from protesters in the grounds of the House of Assembly this week and they are, of course, right. That is the whole purpose of our democratic system: that the electorate can insta...

Yesterday presented yet another sign that Bermuda is hurtling uncontrollably towards a status that is not of the First World variety that we often claim to possess. It did not require a high-priced sleuth to figure out that Chris Furbert and the Reve...