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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...

The Delta variant of Covid-19 is well and truly in Bermuda now. Last night, the health ministry reported that 92 people had Covid-19, up from just 19 a mere three weeks ago. Of those 92 cases, the vast majority are the Delta variant, which is more i...

It may be that the Government’s plans to close half of the island’s primary schools are so popular and make such good sense that that is the reason there has been virtually no opposition to the announcement last month. But that seems unlikely. But i...

Crime stories have been vying with Covid-19 headlines for attention in recent days, and that is bad news for Bermuda. Two different shootings that left four people wounded on Court Street over the past eight days have been the most shocking incident...