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Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, faces his greatest challenge yet when he delivers his third Budget today. It was not supposed to be this way. Twelve months ago, Mr Dickinson laid out a plan to bring Bermuda's runaway budget deficits under ...

Reaction to the Government’s release of details of the Economic Investment Certificate policy has run the gamut. Supporters of status for long term residents are disappointed that the policy does not go further. There has been criticism that the poli...

On Friday, the House of Assembly passed the most far-reaching drug-liberalisation laws Bermuda has seen in decades. The Cannabis Licensing Act was passed without a vote, meaning constituents have no idea whether their Member of Parliament was for or...

Bermuda appears to have survived the second Covid-19 spike that forced a mini-lockdown over Christmas and into this month. The Government further relaxed restrictions on bars, restaurants and other social activities last week, while ending the curfew...

Minister A: “In order to combat the harsh realities resulting from a population decline we need positive net immigration; that is less emigration or people leaving the country to live elsewhere, and more immigration or people entering the country to...

Economists, perhaps conscious of the difficulties of accurate economic forecasting, are reluctant to engage in hyperbole. Even if the sky was falling, they would find a way to explain why it might not happen, or why it might actually be a good thing....

“There’s a plague that is killing Black people, at a rate that should make everyone outraged! If Covid were killing White people at the rate it is killing Black people, you better believe that everyone would be wearing masks. Because it would be ...

The One Bermuda Alliance senator Marcus Jones made the unfathomable decision this week to express his support for impeached and disgraced American president Donald Trump. It appears Mr Jones thought his message, apparently posted to a religious group...

The year 2020 is one that we would love to forget. But we can’t. It and its after-effects will linger well into this new year and beyond for all the pain and suffering it has caused — and will continue to cause. However, out of some of the gloomiest ...

The obituaries are being written for 2020. The common theme is good riddance and bring on 2021. This has indeed been one of the most difficult years in living memory. Only people who are in their mid-eighties or older will recall 1940, when the futur...