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A murdered British MP has been honoured by the Premier at a wreath-laying ceremony at Westminster. David Burt, in London for a UK Overseas Territories summit, was joined at the remembrance event for Sir David Amess by Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker o...

The need to tackle climate change was a priority in a group statement that closed the Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council meetings in the UK. The British government welcomed the territories’ desire to be covered by the Paris Agreement, de...

The US State Department today announced that Karen Grissette has been appointed as the next US Consul to Bermuda. A career Foreign Service Officer of more than 20 years, Ms Grissette recently served as the Executive Director of the Fulbright Foreign ...

A career diplomat was today announced as the acting US Consul General. Tom Edwardsen took over from Alan Purcell, also an acting appointment, who left the island this week. Mr Edwardsen is expected to remain in the job until a permanent post-holder t...

A former Bermuda resident has come under fire for her use of US funds as the American ambassador to South Africa. The Washington International Diplomatic Academy, a diplomatic training organisation, claimed that Lana Marks – a luxury handbag designer...

As the world struggles with issues such as climate change and recession amid a global pandemic, a fundamental economic and societal shift is taking place. While many are desperate to “return to normal”, the reality is that “normal” is going to look v...

Controversial former Bermuda resident Lana Marks has been confirmed as the American ambassador to South Africa by the US Senate almost a year after President Donald Trump appointed her to the post. The one-time Bermuda tennis champion was confirmed o...

Representation of people with Italian roots is a family affair in Bermuda. For the job of Honorary Consul of Italy in Bermuda has gone from veteran restaurateur Jackie Di Meglio, who stood down aged 70, to his daughter, Sabrina. Ms Di Meglio said: “W...

It is now more than a month since the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi — and I am starting to have an appalling suspicion. I don’t have any doubt about what happened: the plot to lure him to the Saudi consulate; the savage attack by hea...

After less than two years on the job, Nikki Haley is planning to step down as US ambassador to the United Nations. Her relatively short tenure isn’t unusual for the position — she has lasted longer than half of her ten predecessors — but her decision...

Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, was yesterday remembered as a statesman and a gentleman. Mr Annan, a Ghanaian diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate, died on Saturday at the age of 80 after a short illness. Mr Annan and his wif...

Why is Chinese President Xi Jinping visiting three small African countries on his first state trip of 2018? This week Xi, will be in Johannesburg for a summit of the leaders of the five Brics emerging economies — Brazil, Russia, India, China and Sout...