Following the recent furore about gay marriage in the US, homosexual couples in Bermuda must have been wondering about the chance of ever being able to obtain legal recognition of their relationships here. If so, they were dealt a blow...
According to a study by consultant Roddy Carr, Bermuda needs a new public golf course. Er, why? Bermuda currently has nine golf courses in its 53 square kilometers, a greater density than anywhere else in the world. Although they're highly...
Today Mandy and I are celebrating our five-month wedding anniversary and the fourth anniversary of the day we started dating. As such, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on my experience of marriage so far. To...
Apolgies for the slow speed of the site over the last couple of days, which was caused by a general problem with Typepad. Apparently it's now been fixed.
Speaking at a public meeting about what Government can do to ease the disparity in wealth between black and white Bermudians, Bermuda Sun columnist and former editor Tom Vesey suggested affirmative action might be the way forward. I disagree. I...
At last some sense is being talked about race by the PLP. Former PLP senator Calvin Smith last night called for black Bermudians to stop viewing themselves as victims despite substantial evidence to the contrary and said they should patronise...
After declining to attend her court hearing last month for a number of traffic offences, Dame Lois Browne-Evans, former Attorney General and leader of the PLP, finally deigned to grace the court with her presence yesterday. She pleaded guilty to...
Bermuda has a new venue for locals who find violent video games a little passe and prefer to engage in the real thing: Hamilton Bus Terminal in the middle of the afternoon. On Thursday afternoon two men - one armed...
As I started to read Stuart Hayward's column - 'Cops with guns: It's not the answer' - in the Bermuda Sun today I found myself getting excited. I agreed with him! The debate about arming the police here was ignited...
Toronto had moose in 2000. London had cows in 2002. And now Bermuda has joined the bizarre international craze for turning sculptures of animals into works of art with the appearance of 50 life-sized pigs at the Hamilton Princess Hotel....
The Berkeley fiasco has blown up again. On Thursday, Works & Engineering Minister Ashfield DeVent was forced into a humiliating admission that the project to build a new senior secondary school has slipped by another year and will now cost...
The sun rises above a calm St. George's harbour this morning. Penno's Wharf is in the foreground; the harbour entrance to the left.
Two newly released surveys of Bermuda's tourists have given substance to one of the long-standing complaints of cynical locals. In 2003, 262,567 people arrived in Bermuda by air, compared with 221,473 on cruise ships. However the average spend of each...
Economist and Bermuda College lecturer Craig Simmons is calling for the Government to start offering mortgage loans to Bermudians to help them buy their own homes. The idea of Government getting into a business usually left to the banks would...
Anyone who remains in any doubt about whether travellers to Bermuda are being ripped off by the airlines should read the letter from James Howes, General Manager of Bermuda International Aiport, in today's Bermuda Sun. He notes that before United...
I'm beginning to understand why Bermudians drive so close to each other. The revelation struck as I found myself stuck behind a car doing a steady 40kph on my way in to work this morning. Minutes earlier I'd finally managed...
One of the good things I'm hoping might come out of the takeover of the Bank of Bermuda by HSBC is an end to the derisory rates of interest currently offered on the Island. Current accounts here offer zero percent...
Shareholders have given their approval to the takeover of the Bank of Bermuda by HSBC by an overwhelming majority. Of the 84% of shares that voted, 91% were in favour of the deal and just 9% opposed. I think it...
I write this a tired, inebriated, adrenalised wreck. And all because of an attempt at physical exercise. I’ve started taking tennis lessons. This concession to physical fitness has been forced out of me by a combination of conscience and a...
Bumper sticker spotted on a car in Hamilton today: "Gun control means being able to hit your target" At the left hand side was an image of Bermuda drawn inside a target. I'm surprised anyone feels the need to display...
More anecdotal evidence of the rising tide of crime in Bermuda. The head of IT from our London office was in Bermuda this week. He'd barely arrived before his hotel room was broken into in the middle of the night...
The more new Housing Minister Ashfield DeVent opens his mouth, the more I worry that the PLP have no ideas whatsoever for tackling Bermuda's affordable housing crisis. The problem was in the news again yesterday following the announcement that a...
Police came to the aid of a man they saw fall off his bike on Front Street early this morning. On smelling alcohol on his breath, however, they asked him if he'd been drinking. "Yeah, I'm drunk. So what? I...
The Government is trying out a novel approach to fighting crime. Speaking yesterday at the formal announcement of the PLP's candidate, Senator Michael Scott, in the upcoming Sandys North by-election, the Premier and Senator Scott explained how they would be...
CableVision, Bermuda's sole cable TV company, have been talking up the prospects for broadband internet on the Island. Last week general manager Jeremy Elmas announced that the company had been granted permission to provide customers with high-speed connections to their...
The island's first bargain basement store, the Dollar Depot, opened last week. Unlike its US counterparts, however, the cost of shipping and the rental costs for the premises means that every item in the store is two dollars, not one....
I must be one of the luckiest men in Bermuda. When my wife is being a gossip or a nag I'm one of the few who can still dunk her in the harbour. The ducking stool was an old Bermuda...
Following the destruction wrought by hurricane Fabian last September, the Regional Four Hurricane Committee, responsible for coming up with the system of names assigned to major tropical storms, has confirmed that the name 'Fabian' is being retired from the list....
Credit where credit's due. The new marketing campaign for Bermuda in the UK seems to be stepping up a gear, with a celebrity bash in London last night and a link-up with the city's leading department store, Selfridges, that will...
Oh dear. In her anxiety to launch another attack on Bermuda's press, Minister of Tourism Renee Webb has again made herself look foolish. Responding to the furore about the U.S. State Department's categorisation of Bermuda's crime rate as "moderate but...
A lot of Bermudians were upset today by the US State Department's decision to portray Bermuda's crime rate as "moderate but growing" in its latest travel advisory. The advisory spends three paragraphs describing the woes that may befall any traveller...
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