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A rigid inflexibility of mind. A lack of receptiveness to fresh ideas. A tendency to fall back on tried-and- failed beliefs regardless of new circumstances or information. As US President John F Kennedy once said, we often tend to subject all facts w...

RG: In our opinion Bermuda is an island where the rule of law supposedly prevails, not mob rule. And the ultimatum issued to Premier Michael Dunkley by the People’s Campaign and the Bermuda Trade Union Congress on Friday — suspend controversial grant...

Jeremy Frith was a man of the soil, a farmer and conservationist whose bond with the good Bermuda earth was almost elemental in its intensity. Mr. Frith was also a man of letters and something of a latterday troubador who celebrated his love for (and...

Nothing has been demonstrated to unite a divided community more effectively than identifying a common enemy. And demagogues, opportunists and garden variety political hacks the world over have a long, unhappy history of exploiting the latent anxietie...

Arthur Rankin Jr’s name will forever be synonymous with Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. The Bermudian producer and director’s evergreen 1964 TV special based on the popular song launched his career and introduced his trademark story arcs about non-co...

Politicians the world over have a singular talent for identifying old grievances which can be depended on to yield occasional rewards in the form of popular support and votes. Whether this gift owes more to a vulture’s nose than an eagle’s eye is lar...

RG: In our opinion Just as the unswerving route of the old Bermuda Railway cuts across the landscape like a long, straight scar, so the story of controversial land expropriations mars Bermuda’s modern history. Before construction could begin on that ...

Like most island communities, Bermuda takes a gradualist, exceedingly cautious approach to the flotsam and jetsam of new-fangled ideas and notions from the outside world which wash up on our shores from time to time. Anything which even remotely thre...

There was nothing remotely glamorous about Bermuda at the end of World War One. This was not yet the Bermuda of “beautiful estates and yachts, of stingers at noon and gin and tonics in the evening” as American journalist and columnist Jim Bishop was ...