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The Bermuda Industrial Union’s work-to-rule and overtime ban will do the union more harm than good. But that may not stop it from escalating the dispute, and causing harm to the wider community on an issue where it has neither right nor logic on its...

Bermuda has lived for decades with the spectre of foreign governments shattering the economy with the stroke of a pen. Changing a few words in a tax code could cause immeasurable harm to international businesses, which has as one of its cornerstones...

It’s official. Bermuda has failed to achieve herd immunity from Covid-19. On Tuesday, Bermuda administered the final first doses of its stock of the Covid-19 vaccine to recipients. As of Friday, 61 per cent of people had had at least one dose while ...

Spare a little sympathy — just a little — for Clarien Bank. When it announced that it was giving $100,000 to assist Black and members of other underrepresented groups to pay their school fees at private schools, its executives presumably expected to...

Bermuda is considering implementing a minimum wage. It should proceed with caution. Simple supply and demand would appear to dictate that if wages were increased, then this would lead to a fall in jobs as employers controlled rising costs by reducin...

It would be an indictment on Bermuda if it failed to use up the stock of Covid-19 vaccines that has been generously provided by the British Government and, more recently, the Covax organisation. There are countries of millions of people, often poore...

Forty years ago today, Bermuda was rocked by what would become the island's first and, to date, only general strike. The ramifications of that strike remain with the island to this day. Bermuda was a different place in 1981 than it is in 2021. The fi...

The effort to contain the pandemic has often been compared to a war. Although imprecise, the comparison is apt. In that context, there is, despite the recent and tragic surge in cases and deaths, a sense that Bermuda is moving to the beginning of the...

Historian Michael Jarvis's opinion last week on previous epidemics in Bermuda was timely. He rightly said it has been so long since countries in the Western world experienced epidemics, let alone pandemics, that it is easy to assume that the Covid-19...

Imposing stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders for prolonged periods of time has always depended on the consent of the people. When Bermuda embarked on its efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, it had to put in place laws and severe penalties f...