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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 celebrated. The caveat, of course, is that Bermuda’s expe...

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, immigration, religion, same-sex marriage, healthcare,...

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 employed, you have to join with your work colleagues in ...

David Burt and the Progressive Labour Party can take a good deal of heart from the by-election result last week. Despite the low turnout, which the Premier rightly said was common for a by-election, the PLP romped to victory, maintaining a winning m...

“When people are coming to talk to me in my office, they’re not saying they hate international business. They’re saying, ‘I’m not eating, my son’s not working, how do I get opportunities in this country? So how can I agree, Mr Caines, to you giving a...

The late John Stubbs is best known today for being the name behind the “Stubbs Bill”, which decriminalised anal sex, or sodomy, in Bermuda. But as a parliamentarian of long standing, he was also a great student of politics and political behaviour. On...

Bermuda is now well on the road to recovery from Hurricane Humberto, and it is impossible to ignore the reality that it is the fourth serious hurricane to have done damage to our island in the past five years. Hurricanes Fay and Gonzalo hit in 2015 ...

At the beginning of his speech to the Progressive Labour Party delegates conference on Monday night, David Burt warned the audience: “Fasten your seatbelts.” In this, at least, the Premier was not indulging in hyperbole or exaggeration. Towards the ...

Green shoots of encouragement could be found from one end of the island to the other in the wake of Hurricane Humberto. The resolve of Bermuda in genuine times of stress yet again proved unbreakable — not so much a show of arrogance in the face of im...

Recent news of redundancies at Butterfield Bank and at Bermuda Security Group, and the recent announcements of retail store closures, must raise grave concerns about the state of the economy. This may seem alarmist, given the most recent government ...