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To liberal Democrats and a few Republicans: get over it. Donald J. Trump will become president of the United States this week. Accept it. As unsettling as the prospect may be, it’s better to go in open-eyed, recognising realities and dispelling myths...

Michael Dunkley has invited outgoing United States President Barack Obama to “relax and have fun” in Bermuda. The Premier, who expressed his “deepest appreciation and admiration” for Mr Obama’s eight years of service in a letter, advised him the isla...

Tracey and Jeffrey Newenhouse first came to Bermuda for their honeymoon in August 1982. The couple from New Jersey enjoyed their stay so much they kept returning — more than three decades later they are back to participate in the Bermuda Marathon Wee...

Michael Dunkley has received a letter from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thanking him for his “thoughtful and heartfelt letter” in November. The Premier wrote to Ms Clinton on the day Donald Trump was voted in as President Elect wishing h...

Ivanka Trump, I’m happy to report, is moving into a house a few blocks from mine in the Kalorama section of Washington, ending the Washington parlour game over where she, her husband Jared Kushner, and their three children would settle. Score a loss...

Economists like to tell a possibly apocryphal story about Milton Friedman. The prophet of free markets, visiting an Asian country in the 1960s, witnessed a public-works project that had people making a road with picks and shovels. When he asked why t...

The daughter of an 84-year-old woman found wandering the streets of Orlando alone is to fly out to be with her for Christmas. Barbara Robinson said she was extremely concerned after hearing for the first time via the radio news on Wednesday evening t...

We are drawing close to the end of a year, with much to cheer about and also a great deal to be concerned about as Bermuda continues to move towards a new era of development that will demand our very best in attitudes and a collective calm-thinking p...

Families can be mysterious, intense and, more often than not, indecipherable to the outside world. Most families seem to endure similar gyrations and upheavals. There are moments of failure and success. There is admirable endurance. To study any indi...

As long as we have had the word “empathy”, it has been seen as an essentially positive thing, like kindness. It is the idea of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes — intuiting the thoughts and feelings of another person and attempting to do somet...

Almost half of Bermudians believe Donald Trump will damage the island because of his temperament, radical views and tax policies, according to a poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette. Some 45 per cent of registered voters fear United States Presiden...

There is little doubt that America is very divided after terribly bitter campaigns that culminated in Republican Donald Trump being elected to replace the outgoing President Barack Obama as the 45th commander-in-chief of the most powerful nation in t...