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Thank you for all the replies and e-mails regarding the column about St Eustatius (Statia) last week. It truly means a lot when persons take a moment to reach out. Last week we spoke about Statia’s history, so today we shall speak about some of the p...

That question, initially posed by a 16-year-old this summer, has been echoed repeatedly by young Bermudians when asked their views on the climate crisis. But rather than a defiant statement of dismissal, the question is at the heart of their search f...

Facebook’s October 4 outages across its platforms, which affected billions of people, and the company’s handling of it raise a far-reaching question: Should we simply rest content with a complete shutdown of service across four platforms, which under...

LeBron James has always wanted to be the NBA’s “Goat” both on the court and off it. In both categories — as a player and as a savvy marketer and steward of his own brand — his only real competition is Michael Jordan. There is, however, one significan...

Tragically, Bermuda is alone in the world at the top of the “red list” chart for Covid-19, and has 75 deaths as testimony to its status. I became curious about the reporting of these Covid deaths. I would go to the obituaries section of the newspaper...

Please, please, please, please ... I am not one who typically begs, but extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Thirty-eight people died in Bermuda during the month of September. Our morgue is overwhelmed, such that our dead are being ke...

Kudos to the 100 or more medical doctors who have come together in urging local residents to join this life-saving campaign by being vaccinated for Covid-19. Given the unprecedented death rate that our island is facing, the open letter signed off on ...

Bermuda Electric Light Company Limited customers can expect to see an increase in their energy bills, beginning with the October billing cycle. This increase is as a result of rising fuel prices and a consequential adjustment made to the fuel adjustm...

We reached an unacceptable level of discarded ocean plastic long ago. At this point, any plastic that ends up in the ocean is one piece too many. Bermuda’s government and environmental activists are rightly looking for Bermudians to do their part in...

Vaccine mandates work. Just ask New York governor Kathy Hochul, whose state gave roughly 600,000 healthcare workers until Monday to get a Covid-19 jab or lose their jobs. Much naysaying ensued, accompanied by predictions that doctors, nurses, orderli...