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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...

With its withdrawal from Afghanistan complete, the United States is left trying to remember why it invaded the country in 2001, and to wonder what two decades of war accomplished. Ostensibly the key to the post-9/11 “war on terror”, the US occupation...

From his desk at the FBI's Washington Field Office, Pete Lapp could see smoke blackening the sky above the Pentagon. After the twin towers fell, a sight he and other agents had watched on a television in a supervisor's office, Lapp assumed they would...

The news flashed across dozens of wall-mounted screens as I stepped off the jet bridge into the airport terminal: US commandos had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The tenth anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001, was only a few months aw...