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Earlier this week the Ministry of Labour advised the public that due to a ban on business travel for Canadian public servants, the Canadian Consulate is unable to facilitate the Biometric Identification Process for Canadian Visa Applicants in Bermuda...

Travellers in need of biometric scans for visas to Britain must travel overseas as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Government House advised last night. The service, which had been available in Bermuda, is at present available only at British visa ...

“Lock her up,” thundered the crowds. The bumper stickers went: “The Good, the Bad, the Ugly” with those adjectives, in order, over the Republican elephant symbol, the Democratic donkey symbol — and a photograph of Hillary Clinton. She’s sick, she’s a...

The biometric identification required for Canadian visa applicants in Bermuda is not available locally because of a travel ban on Canadian public servants caused by the pandemic. The service, which is mandatory for foreign students, had formerly been...

There has been much chatter recently on the West Indies and Bermuda, and how the populations intertwine. Particularly by a writer who insists that the black Bermuda population’s origins were primarily from the Caribbean. His views are not only incorr...

David Burt, the Premier, last night mourned the death of Owen Arthur, a former Prime Minister of Barbados. Mr Arthur died on Monday at the age of 70. Mr Burt described Mr Arthur, who led the Caribbean nation between 1994 and 2008, as a “leader of gre...

How did the news media mess up in the 100 days leading up to the 2016 presidential election? Let me count the ways. Journalists relied too much on what opinion polls were saying and often presented a skewed interpretation of their meaning. That fed t...

Pundits will spend considerable cable news time and social-media space in the coming weeks debating and then analysing the electoral implications of Joe Biden’s choice for vice-president. He has committed to naming a female running mate, and with the...

Just short of a year ago, Sir Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor at The University of the West Indies indicated the intention of the university “to be located in the top 3 per cent of ranked universities by the end of the current strategic planning cycl...

It has been election time in some of our sister islands over the past few months. On June 29, there was a General Election held in our fellow British Overseas Territory of Anguilla. Anguilla has a total population of approximately 15,100 persons, wit...

The blockbuster Supreme Court term that just ended was a (nearly) unmitigated disaster for movement conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts declined to overturn precedent on abortion rights. Conservative activist Justice Neil Gorsuch showed he woul...

As the United Kingdom confronts the issue of racism in British society and the country’s longstanding problem of injustice towards people of African descent, it should not be forgotten that the people of the British Virgin Islands are also victims of...