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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...

“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...

It may be difficult to believe as deaths continue to mount from the latest outbreak of Covid-19, but Bermuda is recovering from what has been by all measures the worst coronavirus crisis the island has yet experienced. That’s not to say we are out o...

Today, The Royal Gazette reports on a gloomy report from Bermuda financial adviser Anchor Investment Management, which confirms what many people will already have felt in their wallets: the Bermuda economy’s rebound has stalled. After the Covid-19 l...

The fault lines that have emerged over Bermuda’s approach to the Covid-19 crisis and especially towards vaccination are deeply worrying. It is easy to forget, when the sound and the fury are loudest, that the vast majority of Bermuda residents have a...

It looked like the dispute that has taken the public bus service off the road for the past 12 days was coming to an end last night. It is not before time. There are and were no winners in this deadlock. The bus drivers had moved from cutting off th...

The 17 coronavirus-related deaths announced between Friday and Monday shattered the final hopes of anyone clinging to the idea that somehow this fourth wave of Covid-19 was less severe than its predecessors. Those in power — starting with David Burt,...