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Just last week Bermuda was patting itself on the back as the end of what had been forecast to be be a slower-than-normal hurricane season approached. Once again it looked as if we might run the annual June-November gauntlet without experiencing the ...

RG: In our opinion Bermuda has long demonstrated it really does possess such stuff as dreams are made on. The Island has served as a seemingly inexhaustible muse for writers, poets and artists over the course of more than four centuries. Scarcely ha...

Reality, it’s been said, is that which doesn’t go away even when you stop believing in it. Substituting comforting fantasies for hard-edged realities may be a source of short-term solace to those whose preferred method of dealing with challenging, co...

There have been hopeful signs of late that Bermuda’s long identity crisis as a tourism destination may finally be approaching some kind of successful resolution. After 30 years of increasingly desperate Tourism Ministry attempts to market Bermuda as ...

RG: In our opinion “They believed us and perished for it. Our statecraft, our learning Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning.” – Rudyard Kipling In the course of less than one desperate hour on the morning of September 22, 1914 a l...

Bermudian politics once held the anticipatory suspense of an empty stage at curtain time along with the unlimited promise of freeing the Island from the heavy burden of its past. In the 1960s and ’70s Parliament went from being a rubber-stamp for dec...

Harry Potter, it seems, has worked a kind of practical magic on his worldwide readership. It’s been seven years since the last volume in the bestselling literary series of all time, the estimable Harry Potter & The Deathly Hollows, appeared and autho...

Parliament will reconvene shortly, and if the past six months are any indicator, there is little reason to hope that the backbiting, divisiveness, and playground-level politics that have become the Island’s hallmark will change any time soon. Sensibl...