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A deeply troubling political trend is unfolding in America as many people in that country, and indeed globally, are pondering how a powerful nation that is meant to be seen as the leader of the free world is spiralling out of control. Directionless. ...

Dear Sir, There are so many issues flowing from Brexit that will affect Bermuda very positively, but the island needs to act urgently to harness the opportunities. Yet I get a sense that the Government doesn’t know how to strategically position itse...

In the cold light of day, things do not look much better for Italy’s political establishment. After voters delivered astonishing mandates to two populist parties on Sunday, the biggest losers seemed to be Matteo Renzi and Silvio Berlusconi, the two f...

Kehinde Wiley’s spectacular new portrait of Barack Obama speaks to the resolute seriousness of the former president and, at the same time, it radiates a sparkling freshness. How exactly can one picture accomplish that? By dividing it into two complem...

It never should have taken a photo of Colbie Holderness’s bruised eye to get Rob Porter out of the White House. He shouldn’t have been there as a top aide to President Donald Trump to begin with, given the longstanding and credible charges of domesti...

More than four months after German voters punished their coalition government at the polls, the two main parties have agreed to try again. If the Social Democratic Party’s rank and file approve the proposed new pact with Angela Merkel’s Christian De...

Bermuda and Britain have signed a Country by Country Competent Authority Agreement that will enable the automatic reporting of corporate income for UK-related transfer pricing enforcement purposes. Transfer pricing refers to the setting of the price ...

David Burt has met with Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, while visiting London to attend a Joint Ministerial Council of the UK Overseas Territories, and to support a Bermuda business development event. The Premier and leaders from nine other ...

President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he was working on a potentially “very big & exciting” trade deal with Britain that would shame the “very protectionist” European Union. He is right that such a deal could be politically advantageous for ...

Fifteen years ago, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously designated September 21 as International Peace Day, a time for members of the human family to reflect on how we inter-relate in the global community. In a “connected” world, where we...

Bermuda is awaiting an answer from a European Union financial watchdog on progress towards gaining a “passport” that would allow island-based alternative investment funds to freely market their services throughout the 28-country bloc. The island is o...

A United Nations court in The Hague has acquitted Vojislav Seselj, the Serbian nationalist whose volunteers helped to start the war in Croatia in 1991, of all charges. It isn’t the “not guilty” verdict that is shocking or necessarily wrong; it is the...