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You don’t need cartoonist Peter Woolcock’s highly developed sense of the absurd to recognise the comic possibilities — and improbabilities — of Bermudian politics. The House of Assembly has, of course, long been the setting for low farce as well as h...

“He nothing common did or mean/Upon that memorable scene …” Andrew Marvell He was our John Tenniel or Ernest Shepherd or Dr Seuss. Bermuda was his Wonderland or Hundred Acre Woods or Jungle of Nool. And we were all of us co-opted as characters in t...

The Island’s history, culture and folkways are so inextricably intertwined with the ocean around us that no less an observer than Charles Dickens remarked 160 years ago: “Every Bermudian, being born within a mile of the water, was bred amphibious ......

RG: In our opinion With yesterday’s confirmation that Bermuda will indeed serve as the venue for the 35th America’s Cup, defending champion Larry Ellison has made good on his intention to remake the venerable sailing competition in his own unconventi...

RG: In our opinion It would be a fatuous understatement to suggest Bermuda’s secondary public education system deserves a failing grade. The grim reality is we have offered up generations of Bermuda students as human sacrifices to the false gods of ...

When it comes to event tourism, there are few events bigger than the America’s Cup. The third largest global sporting competition after the Olympics and the World Cup, the 35th edition of sailing’s blue ribbon event now seems almost certain to be hel...

He could have been forgiven tears of joy for having engineered a scientific feat of almost unfathomable difficulty and unsurpassed brilliance. Having successfully landed a robot probe which had travelled four billion miles onto the surface of a two-m...

With its laid-back way of life and the easy charm which is an intrinsic part of our cultural DNA, Bermuda has never been a community much associated with violence-prone sociopaths. On the contrary, Bermudians have a well-earned reputation for graciou...

At the stroke of 11am this morning, Bermuda fell silent for two minutes to honour our war dead. The tradition dates from the Armistice, which ended what was then called the Great War on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in...

“A most dreadful tempest (and) hideous began to blow … at length (it) did beat all light from heaven, which like an hell of darkness turned black upon us … For four and twenty hours the storm in a restless tumult had blown so exceedingly as we could...