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Flora Duffy’s achievement in winning the gold medal in the women’s triathlon at the Tokyo Olympics produces innumerable superlatives. The first gold medal for Bermuda. The smallest country by population to win a gold medal. Only the second medal B...

Few are coming out of the controversy over mandatory supervised quarantine very well. That is as true for the opponents of mandatory supervised quarantine, who often display a tenuous grip on science, as it is for the Government, which has appeared ...

For virtually the first time since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government is experiencing sustained criticism of its handling of the crisis. Perhaps because of the novelty of taking fire from within the Progressive Labour Party and w...

Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch insisted in the House of Assembly last Friday that the demolition of the historic house Wantley will go ahead despite objections from community organisations. The Minister of Public Works defended the decision in a sta...

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...