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There is a new bank in town for the first time in more than two decades! Jewel Bank has received its full bank and digital asset business licences from the Bermuda Monetary Authority, opening the door for it to service the digital-asset industry and ...

A few days ago a question was posed on a Facebook group that asked the following: “How many of you consider De Rock part of the Caribbean?” Ninety per cent of the answers were as follows; “Not!!!” “No way”. “Negative!!!”. No real surprises with the n...

When a pro-Trump mob laid siege to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, several people died and scores were injured, including some 140 police officers. Windows were smashed. Desks were overturned. Faeces were smeared on the Capitol’s walls. But the a...

Being a person in Bermuda identifying as LGBTQ+ undoubtedly can be a uniquely challenging experience that is rarely understood by others. Not only must we balance all the aspects of life that come with being human, but we must also face indescribable...

Across the Caribbean, except for oil-rich Trinidad & Tobago, electricity is already among the most expensive in the world — and it is only getting more expensive. In Saint Lucia, electricity prices have almost doubled in the past 30 years, and in the...

Recently, journalists and scholars have remarked on the double standards and racism embedded in US foreign policy. They point to the United States' swift denunciation of Russian atrocities in Ukraine, which have been described as shocking because th...

President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. “Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of...

Whenever you read about the impact of plastic pollution, it’s scary to learn about the damage it does to our environment, particularly our ocean life. What is often overlooked, however, is much more disturbing. It is the impact plastic has on humans ...

Let me offer a qualified commendation to the Bermuda Industrial Union for its two-page presentation in The Royal Gazette on Tuesday, headlined “Bermuda High Cost of Living (compared to Switzerland, Norway, Ireland and Bahamas)”. To be clear, I’m not...

After reading about the well-warranted protest over the imaging clinic, the thought came to mind of the adage “the more things change, the more they remain the same”. As a jurisdiction and society, one would think we are evolving and that things in t...