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A global human rights organisation has recommended making Bermuda’s public access to information law more robust, including by allowing some Cabinet papers to be disclosed and by lifting the “veil of secrecy over the work of the Minister of Finance”....

Dear Sir, I have discovered over the years that one of the biggest challenges of my life was trying to define who or what I am. There was a time when I was defined as a British subject, since which that definition has now changed to British Overseas ...

Many Americans have an odd fascination with the idea of the reforming autocrat, the strongman who can “modernise” and lead his nation out of its backward and benighted past. This was the hope for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, a ho...

Jamal Khashoggi and I wrote about opposite, but equally troubled, shores of the Persian Gulf for The Washington Post: Jamal focused on Saudi Arabia, and me on Iran.This past summer, Jamal and I sat down with the Post's Karen Attiah for a wide-ranging...

The latest issue of world news that has entertained us and kept audiences captive for the past week has been the murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident journalist and US resident. It is so easy in thi...

What legacy would you like to see our youth leave behind? Better said, what legacy should they want to leave behind for themselves? I can almost hear the rumbling thoughts in the many adults’ minds who feel the youth today seemingly don’t have a pur...

Under our parliamentary style of democracy, the leader of the country who is called Premier must first gain a seat in Parliament. They then must be selected by the majority of the House of Assembly and be able to demonstrate that they command the maj...

I recall one evening, somewhere around 1968, being shocked out of my boots at a political rally at Devonshire Recreation Club when Arthur Hodgson said in a speech with his bellowing deep voice: “The objective in politics is to gain power.” He said i...

Dear Sir, For many years I have grown up listening to all kinds of people trying to explain and define the word democracy. Of course, as a young man coming up I was not quite sure what the ideals or principles of democracy were. I used to hear a lot ...

Democracy should never be taken for granted, since there are always those who choose to operate outside of basic commonsense rules that promote order, honesty, integrity and transparency. This is particularly required when it comes to leadership role...

Donald Trump’s political career was born amid the fever swamps of the far Right. He seized on a favourite conspiracy theory bubbling there — that Barack Obama was not, in fact, born in the United States and, therefore, was an illegitimate president —...

Dear Sir, I have to take issue with parts of the article in Wednesday’s Royal Gazette on how expats lost the vote. The last paragraph states: “ ... the expat vote was eliminated later that year by Lord Carrington. However, those who were previously ...