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Justice was seen to be served this week when convicted killer Jaquii Pearman Desilva was sentenced to life imprisonment for the cold-blooded shooting of Prince Edness last year. Pearman Desilva will have lived most of his natural life by the time he ...

It has been nothing short of an exhilarating few days for Bermuda, as we saw the America’s Cup get off to a sensational start in our waters with the world watching, and then an announcement that a new hotel for the East End was finally going to be re...

In any community, there is always a gulf between high-principled ideals and prosaic realities, between promise and actual performance. Bermuda is no exception. It’s now been almost a half-century since the modern Bermuda Constitution was promulgated....

Does Bermuda really get the America’s Cup? That was the question repeated ad infinitum in the lead-up to one of the most anticipated weeks in the Island’s history — sporting or otherwise. Among the biggest criticisms, or put-downs, was that the battl...

Dear Sir, More than 50 years ago, an excellent Bermudian teacher, Arthur Motyer, introduced his students to Milton’s ‘Areopagitica’. It is widely regarded as the definitive work on freedom of expression. While full of many classical and Biblical allu...

Two years ago a series of 114 youth conferences were held worldwide, attracting more than 80,000 youth between the ages of 15 and 30. Fourteen young people travelled from Bermuda for this auspicious event. A few months earlier, an invitation was giv...

Reserve police officer Sandra Beach last night became the first woman to take up the post of commandant of the Bermuda Reserve Police. Ms Beach was sworn in at a change of command ceremony held at the police headquarters in Prospect. “Throughout hi...

Women only hold 15.7 per cent of top leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies. This statistic is being highlighted by activists involved in the ‘Day of the Girl’, a global movement raising awareness about the many inequalities females face. Whi...

It was a tough couple of days for the crews up in Dockyard as they prepared to secure more than 200 boats ahead of Hurricane Joaquin. A team who work for Spar Yard/West End Yachts endured soaking wet, windy conditions as they hauled vessels out of t...

Bermuda is one of the happiest countries in the world. This is according to a research project that has taken in some of the biggest world surveys and places the jewel of the Atlantic at number 11 out of 150 countries. Martijn Burger, academic dire...

Ayo Kimathi’s astonishing, repulsive speech at the Liberty Theatre a few days ago seems to have had a silver lining. It was so offensive that it has made it difficult to support what he said. His arguments have been exposed as indefensible. That he...

When Age Concern’s Claudette Fleming told this newspaper last week that seniors were fed up with being preached to, she was probably expressing a widespread frustration among older people. It seems that seniors are all too frequently viewed as a gro...