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The British Government has rejected a parliamentary committee proposal to come up with a timetable for talks that would give British residents in Bermuda the right to vote. It said the Foreign Office did not plan to publish any such schedule but reco...

A legal battle over Britain’s demand that Bermuda establishes a public beneficial ownership register will most likely be avoided. That is the view of Lord Tariq Ahmad, Britain’s Foreign Office Minister for the Overseas Territories, who said the UK wa...

Can a single edifice define a city? Notre Dame cathedral may well be the one truly definitive monument in the world. Even as images of the devastating fire began to circulate, commentators were pointing out that Notre Dame stands at the dead centre o...

Early Friday morning, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled that Alabama could execute Christopher Lee Price. In dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer took an unusual step: he criticised his colleagues for not meeting in person before resolving the appeal,...

Julian Assange was marched out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London yesterday, videos of his arrest showing what looks like a cranky, beleaguered version of Santa Claus. Or, depending on your perspective, a tired, down-on-his-luck burglar...

The continuing saga of journalist and transparency activist Julian Assange took a dangerous turn yesterday. Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, revoked his asylum in that country’s London embassy. British police immediately arrested him, supposedly pu...

Bermuda has been held accountable to meet yet another economic compliance hurdle. We’ve been in these scrutinised headlines before. We’ve heard it all before — from country friends and economic foes alike. Frustratingly, from our sophisticated regul...

The Premier discussed Bermuda’s efforts to build its relationship with the United States when he met members of Congress in Washington, yesterday. David Burt said the island’s co-operation with the US on tax transparency and its assistance in helping...

Britain is preparing to return to the 19th century in the event of a hard Brexit — or at least to experiment with unilateral free trade on a scale unseen since the repeal of agricultural tariffs in 1846 changed the course of history. But in the moder...

A slight typographical error, and pushing up close to the edge of a deadline, are factors that led to Bermuda being put on a European Union list of noncooperative tax jurisdictions. The Bermuda Government expects the island to be taken off the blackl...

Bermuda’s business leaders have pledged support for the Bermuda Government’s efforts to remove the island from the European Union’s list of noncooperative tax jurisdictions. The head of Bermuda’s largest trade organisation, meanwhile, said that he is...

Elements of the 2016 British referendum campaign have long seemed familiar to Americans. There was a close, controversial election, full of rancour and anger. There were a lot of wealthy men talking about “the people” and their “will”. There were tar...