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Once again, Bermuda is facing a potential spike in Covid-19 cases. It is critical that, almost two years into the pandemic, the lessons learnt are applied intelligently and fairly. One of the major lessons is to stick rigorously to the facts and to ...

The old adage no battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy could apply equally well to government budgets, never more so than when the Covid-19 pandemic is added to the mix. So Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, deserves some sympat...

Patrick Tannock, the chairman of the Association of Bermuda International Companies, this week issued a call to arms to the Bermuda community. Mr Tannock, also chief executive officer of Bermuda’s AXA XL insurance operations, warned that the island ...

The sight of garbage being dumped on Pembroke Marsh for the first time in decades is a ready symbol of Bermuda’s shift from economic miracle to economic mediocrity. There are others. The dreadful state of the Botanical Gardens, poor roads and governm...

In July 2019, David Burt gave a passionate speech in Parliament about the infamous December 2 protest – an event he had helped organise two-and-a-half years earlier when he was Opposition Leader and which had already spawned three separate inquiries....

David Burt, the Premier, rightly said last Friday that he will rule out nothing when planning how to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. Asked if it would be necessary to bring in tougher restrictions, Mr Burt said every leader who had had to deal with...

Renée Ming was asked this week if she thought the spike in road deaths was a national emergency. The Minister of National Security refused to go that far, saying instead that it was an “extreme concern”, which was an oddly precise exercise in parsin...

Although the Government’s Speech from the Throne has been criticised for being long on rhetoric and short on substance, the environment received more attention than usual — and it’s about time. This may have been driven by the speech being delivered...

The Speech from the Throne brought to mind the comment from Mario Cuomo, the first member of that family to govern New York, that politicians “campaign in poetry, but govern in prose”. Throne speeches are often filled with grand phrasemaking and aff...

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...