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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...

Trying to predict what will happen in Bermuda’s tourism industry when it is only March is always dangerous. Much can go wrong, and much of that is out of Bermuda’s control, not least an unstable global climate which could affect prices and people’s ...

There is no doubt that the decision on the Tucker’s Point Special Development Order is difficult. It is a classic public interest debate in which the community’s different needs have to be weighed before a decision is made. The arguments in favour o...

Premier Paula Cox raised a few eyebrows when she suggested that after Government had reduced spending in this year’s Budget, that now the private sector, and more specifically, members of the Business Bermuda trade organization, should do the same by...