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Leaders must be held accountable for their actions if the rule of law is to prevail. For the military, accountability derives from civilian control over our armed forces. This is the governing principle of civil-military relations; it is central to o...

Much of the world today is pondering whether the days of glowing tourism, with thousands travelling by air and sea to experience various cultures, and to enjoy meeting people from other lands will ever return. The reason for concern for tourism offi...

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has called an election that will happen in a couple of weeks, oddly in the middle of a fourth wave in the pandemic. Covid-19 is having an effect on the lives of people worldwide and contributing to their sense o...

Six years. That’s how long Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and their fellow gymnasts have been waiting for an independent criminal investigation into the cover-up of their sexual molestations by Olympic doctor Larry Nassar. Six years. For all that time, M...

In every country and culture, some terms grow organically and become a permanent part of the country’s dialogue. In Bermuda, we have many terms brought to the mainstream via the long-running Not the Um Um Show and, more recently, Bermemes. Terms such...

It has been said that there are no friends in politics, only allies who have common interests that can and do shift from time to time. In fact, as former US president Harry Truman once famously said about life in Washington (read politics): if it is ...

The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute will host the island’s first Youth Climate Summit in November. Over the course of six days, the summit will bring together students aged 13 to 22 to focus on what they can do to ensure their future is not ...

Regular tennis fans got an introduction to 18-year-old Emma Raducanu’s power and personality during her impressive run at Wimbledon this year. But it was her victory at the US Open on Saturday that turned the Toronto-born Briton into one of those ath...

Upon the recent anniversary of 9/11 a few days ago, I sat down to place my thoughts on paper. We can all recall our own 9/11 stories and moments — those of us who were counted among the living then and old enough to discern what was happening before ...

How can nations engage with failed states where governmental functions have become paralysed and countries that have fallen into civil war, and prevent them from becoming hotbeds of terrorism? Based on the lessons learnt from the 20-year “war on terr...