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The Progressive Labour Party won its landslide election victory in 2020 because the party had handled the first part of the pandemic well, had some valid ideas for reducing inequity and because the opposition One Bermuda Alliance was weak and unprepa...

There was a time, and it was not that long ago, when the shooting murders of a 24-year-old man and an 18-year-old man within 48 hours of each other would have brought this community to a standstill. It is a sign of the times, and not one that anyone...

Bermuda is heading for a full-blooded constitutional crisis. The Cannabis Licensing Act was passed for a second time by the House of Assembly on Friday, and was tabled in the Senate on Monday. However, that tabling is a simple procedural matter. Hav...

Lifestyle choices at the heart of driving up cost, putting unsustainable pressure on the health system

January is meant to be a month of hope. A month to set us on the path to redemption and renewal after the travails and challenges of the 12 months gone by. A month of new year’s resolutions. But this has been a cussed two or three years, and instea...

Presumably recharged from his Christmas vacation, David Burt tried to regain control of the agenda this week. Politically this was a necessity after the Covid-19 testing debacle that followed the Christmas and new year’s holidays and continues to wr...

The shambles surrounding Bermuda’s much hyped Covid-19 testing system worsened at the end of last week with the resignation of Dr Carika Weldon as the Government’s scientific adviser. Dr Weldon returned to Bermuda from the UK at the beginning of the...

If the experience of other countries is anything to go by, the greatest threat from the Omicron variant is not that it will cause serious symptoms and widespread death, but that its rapid transmission will paralyse everything from hospitals to shops ...

It is a fairly simple task to pillory Wayne Furbert for his recent ham-handed handling of plans to reform the Bermuda Post Office. The Minister for the Cabinet Office blundered into a storm of controversy when he defended plans to have the Post Offi...

“This is not who we are, this is not what we want to be known for, this is not the way of life we want for ourselves or for our children.” So said Darrin Simons, the Acting Commissioner of Police, in the wake of Tuesday’s mass shooting in the Robin H...