Curtis Dickinson’s pre-Budget report makes for depressing reading and shows the enormity of the task before the finance minister as he prepares to present his latest Budget in the next few weeks.
At ...
Newspapers often get criticised for reporting only the “bad news”, but the announcement last week that there were no murders recorded in 2019 is good news indeed and should, with a caveat, be celebrat...
The term “Two Bermudas” has been bandied about over the years to the point of overuse. That is because it has come to mean all things to all people whenever the mood strikes — politics, education, imm...
American President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said in the depths of the Great Depression that “we have nothing to fear but fear itself” — and this captures the economic quandary Bermuda is in as 2...
The argument between David Burt and Progressive Labour Party chairman Damon Wade helps to show why the Premier’s recent assault on the status quo and white establishment businesses is bad for the econ...
In his speech to the Progressive Labour Party and in his later curtailed statement to the House of Assembly last month, David Burt provided some details on the Government’s plans to allow holders of p...
Imagine a world where buying groceries worked like this:
Each month, you pay a certain amount into a fund, call it a food premium fund, to cover most of your grocery-buying expenses.
If you’re employ...
It took a while, but many people have awoken to just how extensive the Government’s proposed health financing reforms are — the recent Patients 1st meeting had an attendance that was essentially twice...
Bermuda likes to call itself “another world”, but it isn’t, really.
The social problems that blight less balmy and picturesque places blight this island too, albeit on a much smaller scale.
The questi...
Tim Hodgson, who passed away yesterday, was a brilliant writer and journalist.
Elsewhere in this newspaper, there will be a more exact record of his career, but a résumé does not do justice to Tim or ...
