One of the reasons often given for spiralling rents in Bermuda – and it was mentioned again in Friday’s editorial in the Mid Ocean News – is the housing allowances that some expatriate workers are given by their employers. An...
Question: How do you know when your cat has just killed a bird? Answer: He still has its feathers stuck to his head.
Royal Gazette Opinion, 27 January 2005 (unedited version, with the pun on the UPS slogan still intact in the title) Last Monday, Minister of Tourism Dr. Ewart Brown delivered a speech in which he outlined the Government’s plan for reviving...
I'd like to thank the individual who broke into my car on Monday evening while it was parked at Bull's Head car park. It's been a while since I've donated any money to charity so I'm grateful to you for...
After Government-sponsored focus groups came under attack recently for having "inappropriately political" content, Director of the Department of Communications and Information Beverle Lottimore had this to say: “[The Premier] is the leader of our country, the one we look up...
The author of the Ashay Rites of Passage programme is a passionate believer in the need for blacks to receive reparations to right the wrongs of the past, and believes that African-centered education is a necessary and critical part of...
On Saturday afternoon I went up to Warwick Camp to watch the Bermuda Regiment's newest recruits put through their paces. It was an impressive display of discipline and ceremony, though watching the recruits march around the parade ground, shuffle into...
In the poll that’s been running for the last two weeks I asked what you thought the Government’s priorities should be for the year ahead. A number of things stood out. Government Priorities 2005 On which issues should the Government...
A reporter from CBS news claims to have overhead some muttered asides made by American President George Bush during his inauguration in Washington DC yesterday. "The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in...
Royal Gazette Opinion, 20 January 2005 Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Eddie Lamb recently described the Bermuda Regiment as probably the last organisation that can rescue Bermuda’s young men caught up in a life of drugs and violence. His depiction of...
In case anyone missed it (I know not everyone who looks at this site reads the comments), the creator of the Ashay Rites Of Passage programme, Mwalimu Melodye Micere Van Putten, has posted more details about it here. I'd like...
Anyone hoping to use the UK's new Freedom of Information Act to request information from the Governor's office is in for a disappointment. While there was never any suggestion that Bermuda Government documents were covered under the Act, some members...
I didn’t spend much time studying history at school. After three years of turgid medieval and Tudor monarchs I’d had enough and elected to do a GCSE in Geography instead. As a result, I left school woefully ignorant of the...
At approximately 7.45pm this evening, on Bermudiana Road, I happened upon one of the funniest things I’ve seen since moving to Bermuda. Picture the scene: GP2, the over-sized Peugeot of Deputy Premier Dr. Ewart Brown, parked on double-yellow lines outside...
While the initiative to redevelop the Hamilton waterfront remains in the news, it’s not the only part of the Island being considered for a facelift. The Bermuda End-To-End and the Parks Department today announced that they’re looking for public input...
I don’t understand how anyone could be upset by the rough treatment meted out to the late arrivals at the start of the annual Bermuda Regiment recruit camp on Sunday. So two latecomers, both of whom had also disobeyed an...
Here's the latest list of reasons why Premier Alex Scott thinks you should support independence: We'll have more success fighting crime because the Government will tell the police what to do. It will boost tourism because we'll be able to...
I'd like to congratulate Premier Alex Scott for finally having the courage to admit what's been evident to everyone else for some time: although the Government would like to fight crime and drugs and make society safe, it's unable to...
Did Premier Alex Scott really suggest that the Government is being hampered in its attempts to tackle crime because the police report to the Governor and the Commissioner of Police? And did he really imply that if Bermuda was independent,...
Bermuda’s independence debate is attracting attention in the United States. A memorandum published today by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a Washington think tank, concludes that despite the prominence Premier Alex Scott has given the issue, “a political tsunami that...
Tourists disembarking at Penno’s Wharf in St. George’s could be forgiven for feeling a little puzzled when confronted by this sign near the cruise ship terminal. It’s true that both routes will get you to the town centre, so the...
Want to learn about Bermudian culture? Just pay a visit to one of the Island’s many roundabouts. At the Crow Lane roundabout we have Johnny Barnes - ambassador of goodwill, wizard of the wave – symbolising Bermudians’ legendary friendliness. And...
The cheap airfares now available to Bermuda from the US are being publicised in an article circulating in the American media. The Associated Press story has been published in newspapers including the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the San Diego North...
Perhaps E. Michael Jones, mayor of St. George’s, should have gone a little easier on the mulled wine. At the old town’s New Year party last night, shortly before midnight the mayor came on stage, accompanied by Governor Sir John...
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