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When I was growing up, my parents told me, when you are in a public gathering with strangers, there are two topics to avoid: race and religion. Race and religion are difficult topics. They have caused riots, wars and no one leaves a social gathering ...

What is the biggest threat facing Bermuda? Last summer I posed this question in an opinion observing that our biggest threat was not in fact Bermuda’s new airport. Today, our island benefits from a new $400 million gateway, built without adding to o...

It was extremely disturbing to read the Letter to the Editor in The Royal Gazette on January 14, 2021 entitled “Spot the difference” wherein the author, Elspeth Gray, asks: “What is the difference between the Trump supporters storming the Capitol Bui...

We, the undersigned residents of Bermuda, take this opportunity on the birthday of the late Reverend Martin Luther King Jr to express our concerns and best wishes to our neighbours, the people of the United States of America, as that country navigate...

The Westminster system of government often comes in for its fair share of criticism in recent times — here and elsewhere. True, it is not perfect, and I have in my time been an advocate for reform and modification to refine and build on that which en...

“Country roads take me home To the place that I belong” — John Denver Devonshire bonds Around the year 1900, my great-grandparents, Herman and Rosanna Charles, built their homestead on a very quiet patch of rural Devonshire. There...

The Senate reconvenes tomorrow for the first time after the Christmas and new year festivities to debate several pieces of legislation that if passed, will become law. Among the changes is the redistribution of funds from charity to the union. At pr...

The real test of leadership is not on the horizon; it’s staring us in the face. While we may be spectators, if any major escalation that resembles civil war in the United States occurs, it will have a huge and direct impact in Bermuda — as it did in ...

Regarded as the most powerful country in the world, America will soon attempt to move a step closer to the land where, internationally, it is seen as the place where regardless of race, religion or political persuasion, one can under a system of de...

Our planet and society seems to be at yet another tipping point. Earlier this year, fires burned on the West Coast of the United States and scorched more than four million acres of land. To compare this catastrophe, it was equivalent to 303 Bermudas...