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David Burt needs everything to go right for his gamble on government debt not to backfire

Inevitably, editorials on Christmas Eve look back on the past 12 months. For the past few years it has been a struggle to find much positive to say about Bermuda’s recent past. Economic stagnation, the travails of Covid-19 and rising crime cast a pa...

Anyone expecting an overarching plan to dramatically improve Bermuda’s moribund economy while containing the rise in the cost of living will have been disappointed in the Throne Speech yesterday. The Government’s lack of ambition may actually be righ...

Bermuda’s economy grew by 5.4 per cent in 2021, according to Jason Hayward, the economy and labour minister. While the minister, in releasing the gross domestic product figures for last year, conceded that the economy at $6.3 billion had not recover...

When David Burt called a snap General Election in 2020, he justified it on the basis that difficult economic problems were looming and the Government needed a mandate to take the hard decisions that would be necessary. Hard times are indeed here. Pr...

Last Friday, MPs were told they will be asked to make permanent anti-gang laws implemented on a temporary basis a decade ago. The laws mean that for crimes where gang involvement can be proved, those convicted can face up to five additional years in...

Bermuda has been beset by antisocial behaviour and youth violence throughout the Covid-19 pandemic — and some might argue that the present malaise has been ingrained for far longer. Reports of teenagers being murdered and others the victims and perp...

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...