Log In

Jessica Lewis returns to Bermuda today. Remember her? You know, the 22-year-old who set the pulses racing when she smashed the record in the T53 100 metres wheelchair race at the Parapan American Games in Toronto last Thursday. Her performance was go...

Today marks a watershed moment in the history of The Royal Gazette and its approach to a pastime that has sustained its popularity among our citizens over the past three decades and more, but has struggled to command column inches in the only daily n...

“You can say what you want about me, but don’t you dare talk about my momma.” Those are the well-worn words of many a Bermudian man, who might allow the most vile insult to be mouthed about his father, but then will “go Casemates” to stand up for his...

At long last, the Bermuda economy is showing signs of thawing from the permafrost of a six-year recession. Last week’s gross domestic product (GDP) statistics for the first quarter showed the economy grew by an inflation-adjusted 2.2 per cent year ov...

Ours is not a time of robust self-confidence and national pride. The prevailing mood is one of muted pessimism and concern; fatalism and resignation have largely replaced faith in ourselves and our country. For decades the buoyant Bermudian self-imag...

It has long been said that the youth are our greatest asset. When adults fumble over themselves with maddening consistency, it is to the fresh-faced that we turn for new perspective. When those whom we look up to give us little to be proud of, it is...

The international furore over the killing of Cecil the lion has forced mankind again to wrestle with its conscience. What Walter Palmer, the American dentist by day and hunter by night, set into motion on July 1 when the popular black-maned lion was ...

The seismic shifts occurring in the international insurance market are relevant to all residents, whether or not we have any direct connection to the Island’s most productive industry. This week’s events brought into sharp focus what happens when com...

Mark Twain’s aphorism about never putting off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow was intended as a sardonic rebuke to the chronically tardy, not a rallying cry. But Bermuda seems to have other ideas. Long the author’s second home, ...

Now that the dust has settled over 1½ days of “cricket” at Wellington Oval, on with the post mortem. Mother Nature gave us the mother of all scares with a week of rain before Cup Match, every day — and not simply your standard fare. She dropped it on...