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The Government has mismanaged the latest outbreak of the coronavirus. It is that simple. Having managed the coronavirus well in 2020 — and been rewarded at the polls as a result — the Progressive Labour Party government’s handling of the present outb...

The first rules to apply when trying to persuade people to change their minds are to pick an issue that is relatively straightforward and then to keep your argument as simple as possible. The campaign by the Bermuda Industrial Union to overturn the ...

The news that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for full use should be welcomed. Bermuda has been fortunate to have received the vaccine in large amounts from Britain, as a result of which 65 per cent of th...

The Bermuda Industrial Union is threatening to hold a two-day strike next week over the issue of whether an employee has the right to decide on continuing to be represented by a trade union, regardless if that employee is a union member or not. The t...

George Aiken, a centrist Republican senator from Vermont in the 1960s, has long been credited with the quote that the "US should declare victory in Vietnam and leave". The Vermont senator's actual statement was more nuanced than that, but the idea of...

The Delta variant of Covid-19 is well and truly in Bermuda now. Last night, the health ministry reported that 92 people had Covid-19, up from just 19 a mere three weeks ago. Of those 92 cases, the vast majority are the Delta variant, which is more i...

It may be that the Government’s plans to close half of the island’s primary schools are so popular and make such good sense that that is the reason there has been virtually no opposition to the announcement last month. But that seems unlikely. But i...

Crime stories have been vying with Covid-19 headlines for attention in recent days, and that is bad news for Bermuda. Two different shootings that left four people wounded on Court Street over the past eight days have been the most shocking incident...

The Government's announcement that it will relax requirements for permanent residence should be welcomed, although it will be likely criticised from both ends of the political spectrum. Pro-business advocates and supporters of the One Bermuda Allianc...

The Government won a significant legal victory on July 23 in its efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic when the Chief Justice dismissed a challenge to its mandatory supervised quarantine order for unimmunised travellers. Narinder Hargun, in a ...