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A Dutch bank employee has embarked on a mission to remember more than 280 soldiers – including five Bermudians – who gave their lives in the liberation of Europe in the Second World War. Oscar Huisman, said his village of Overloon was the site of a c...

The US has announced it will make limited exceptions for unvaccinated foreigners to enter the country. Exceptions will be made for children, people who have to visit for emergency or humanitarian reasons and people who cannot have the vaccine for med...

A charity filled three shipping containers with food and other aid for Haitians battling to survive after a massive earthquake. Now Phillip Rego, who launched Feed My Lambs Ministry in 2009, is on his way to Haiti to organise the arrival of the cont...

At the 76th United Nations General Assembly, the Haitian representative said there will be no end to the US migration problem until the issue of equality is addressed. Was he correct? His comments could be seen also in the address by Mia Mottley fro...

A Royal Bermuda Regiment soldier who signed up for a stint of life on the ocean wave has just finished a major disaster relief exercise in the Caribbean. Lieutenant Ci’re Bean, 23, was attached to the Royal Navy’s HMS Medway to help plan and carry o...

The leader of the Bahamian Progressive Liberal Party was yesterday congratulated by the Progressive Labour Party after he became his country’s Prime Minister. Philip “Brave” Davis, leader of the Progressive Liberal Party, led his party to victory ove...

Leaders must be held accountable for their actions if the rule of law is to prevail. For the military, accountability derives from civilian control over our armed forces. This is the governing principle of civil-military relations; it is central to o...

Campaigners and trades unions today appealed to the UK to back a drive to make coronavirus vaccine available to developing countries. A statement from the Bermuda Trade Union Congress, Social Justice Bermuda and Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda –...

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...

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...

“The pen is mightier than the sword” is a word picture as a metaphor created by an English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, which characterises how powerful and superior effective words, information and even education can be in resolving conflict...