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At the end of last year, there was a feeling that Bermuda might have gotten a grip on the wave of murders that shook the Island in 2010. Although there were shootings and incidents of violent crime, there were no gun murders for seven months, to the ...

David Burch, now the former Government Senate Leader and Minister of Public Safety, will be missed. That may seem strange coming from this newspaper, since Mr Burch has always made plain his distaste for The Royal Gazette. But even that, in its own ...

Although there was a great deal to be encouraged about in Friday night’s debate on the Tucker’s Point Special Development Order, there are reasons to feel unhappy about the process and the final result. Still, it is positive that Government was first...

News that Government will be reviewing its Immigration policy and will also be taking a fresh look at its policy on land licences is welcome, but long overdue. Care needs to be taken not to predict too much for this review since details are very scar...

News that public health insurance costs will soar this year should not surprise anyone who has been following the health insurance debate. But that does not mean that there are easy fixes or solutions to the problem. In recent years, health costs ha...

Landscaping has become one of the pressure points in Bermuda’s recession. There are several reasons why. It is a sector of the economy which has been heavily dependent on foreign labour and thus is one of the “buffers” in the economy where Bermudians...

Government got slammed last week for underestimating by $10 million the amount of money that would be required for financial assistance in the current financial year. Estimating claims in a weakening economy is always going to be difficult. But the ...

Dr Barbara Ball was a woman of true courage who stood up for her beliefs at a time when doing so brought with it a high financial and professional cost. The first female doctor to be given privileges at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, she operated...

The Westminster system of parliamentary democracy depends on discipline, and a certain level of dishonesty, to work. That’s because MPs are expected to support the government’s programme even when they disagree with parts of it. If they are Cabinet ...

The chairmen of the Board of Education and their Ministers have not always seen eye to eye in recent years, so it was good to see current chairman Darren Johnston backing Minister Dame Jennifer Smith this week. As Bermuda tries to improve public educ...