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I know, Mr Editor, I said that I was going to stop writing for a time. But I trust you will allow me this exception, a tribute for an exceptional person: the late Dr the Honourable Clarence James, CBE, JP. We were not contemporaries, but our paths of...

Readers will know that last week the Commission of Inquiry started its work in earnest, much of it preparatory at this stage, Mr Editor. I have had a decision to make and I have made it. I am going to stand down as a columnist and commentator for th...

Ps, Mr Editor, is an unusual way to begin a column. Postscripts are usually found at the end. But I want to begin this week with a follow-up to last week’s column. Consultation does have its sceptics, critics and detractors — and I want to address so...

Inquiring minds want to know, Mr Editor, following last week’s column and recent events: OK, Barritt, any bright ideas on how consultation could work? Fair question. First, any attempt needs to be real and genuine. People will quickly recognise when ...

The problem, Mr Editor, is that you really only get the one chance to make a good first impression. A second chance is, well, just that, a second chance, and if you are fortunate to get one in life, you try to make the best of it that you can. Make l...

Words almost fail me, Mr Editor, so I won’t be so long this week. So much has already been said; too much in some cases, and so much of it nasty, ugly and unhelpful, and, sadly, said by some who hide behind the cloak of anonymity. Shame on them. So I...

“The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg ...”— Unknown I am no political consultant, Mr Editor, and with that disclaimer out of the way, let’s get down to it. The business of politics is no easy business and strategy is often k...

Compromise, collaboration and consensus are not four-letter words, as you well know, Mr Editor, but it sure seems like it when it comes to modern-day politics, if you get my drift. This can be one of the drawbacks to the Westminster system and how th...

Pathways, Mr Editor, can be a very useful way for the Bermuda Government to signpost the direction in which it intends to lead us. The 2015-16 Budget is a very good example of this — and, yes, this reference to pathways is deliberate; to make a point...

It’s Budget time. Brace yourselves, people. But while you do, spare a thought for our seniors. It will be revealing to see whether they will merit a line or two in today’s Budget Statement. They ought to; maybe even a paragraph or two. They have iss...