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Warm Greetings and Very Best Wishes for a Bright and Prosperous 2020 and the decade of the 2020’s to the Government and people of Bermuda and everyone residing in the lovely Bermuda Islands on behalf of the Jamaican Association of Bermuda (JAB) and J...

Once again history has been made with the congressional impeachment of Donald Trump. The President of the United States is the third in my lifetime — fourth in 200 years, out of 45 presidents — indicted to be impeached. I recall the first impeachment...

A woman thanked the public yesterday after hundreds of pairs of sunglasses were donated to help people plagued by eye conditions in poverty-stricken Haiti. Lucy Willitts said was a “tremendous” response from the public to her drive for shades after s...

I had the opportunity and privilege last Friday, December 13, of getting to sit in the House of Assembly. No, not the House of Assembly of Bermuda, but the House of Assembly for the Virgin Islands. Located in the heart of Road Town, Tortola, this whi...

Dear Sir, This is a rebuttal, in a small part, to the extensive article entitled “Future of Britain and the OTs: soft colonialism or modern partnership?” published on November 28. It’s the paragraph below that I find misinformed and/or misleading, es...

Things could not have gone better for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. His ruling Conservative Party scored a thumping victory in last Thursday’s elections, securing dozens of new seats to forge a solid majority in Parliament. Johnson won what h...

When it comes to elections, Labour leaders know what they have to try to avoid: any comparison to 1983. The only election fought under Michael Foot as leader was the moment the party suffered one of its most famous defeats. Labour won its lowest sha...

Thanks to sensible law-enforcement policies, violent crime rates dropped by half in the United States over the past three decades. Although increases occurred in 2015-16, the rates again dropped during the first two years of the Trump Administration....

Months ago, when former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg said he would not run for president, a palpable feeling of relief flooded the global newsrooms that bear his name. “The sound of 2,700 exhaling,” as the quip had it. Now — with the 77-year-ol...

A US care centre where a 16-year-old Bermudian girl died said yesterday it was “greatly saddened” by last week’s tragedy. Janet Farnsworth, the executive director of West Ridge Academy in West Jordan, Utah, offered condolences to the teenager’s famil...

A bride-to-be and her friends were booted off a flight to the US yesterday as they headed for a pre-wedding party. The four were ordered off the American Airlines flight to Miami by cabin crew and the flight was delayed by about an hour. The group la...

A longstanding leader of the British Virgin Islands, Ralph O’Neal, died yesterday. He was 85. David Burt, the Premier, said Mr O’Neal, who served as the British Overseas Territory’s premier from 2007 to 2011, was BVI’s longest-serving elected represe...