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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...

David Burt said last night that he knew he was delivering the news that no one wanted to hear, not even those people who were expecting or even calling for further restrictions to arrest the wave of coronavirus cases that has assailed the island. Th...

On Sunday evening, it was announced that two people had died of Covid-19 over the weekend, the first deaths since January and the thirteenth and fourteenth since the beginning of the pandemic. Last night, 69 new cases were announced after 108 new cas...

Passing the Budget is the single most important act carried out by Bermuda’s Parliament in any given year. Pedants will point out that the Budget itself does not get passed and has no legal standing. There is a speech called a Budget Statement, which...