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Bermuda residents have embarked on a massive exercise in self-restraint — an acceptance of restrictions and the basic freedoms they usually take for granted. They have done so in the hope that this 14-day lockdown will prevent the widespread transmi...

On Saturday, Britain experienced its greatest spike in the number of daily deaths from the Covid-19 disease when 260 lost their lives, while the number infected approached 20,000. Meanwhile, in the United States, the leading and most respected medica...

“While an emergency does not create power, an emergency may furnish the occasion for the exercise of the power.” That statement was made by Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it ...

Although Bermuda and the world are consumed, rightly, with the Covid-19 crisis now, it will come to an end, and at that time other problems and policy issues facing Bermuda will return. One such issue is education, and more particularly, public educ...

Bermuda has its first two Covid-19 cases and almost certainly there will be more. At this point, Bermuda, to follow the coronavirus vernacular, is transitioning from the containment phase to the delay phase and, as best can be told, is trying to foll...

The Bermuda Government has been given the benefit of the doubt throughout the coronavirus crisis. These indeed are unprecedented times and David Burt, his Cabinet and the health professionals charged with providing the best advice to our leaders have...

For all but the most introverted among us, humans are social beings, gathering together to talk, work, worship, dance, commune with nature, learn and, often, just enjoy being in one another’s company. This communion of souls does not simply serve as...

No one would dispute that as Bermuda grapples with the prospect of the arrival of the Covid-19 coronavirus that the health and wellbeing of its residents must come first. Clearly, it is the responsibility of the Government and health authorities t...

The Royal Gazette published an editorial last week that suggested that minimal spread of the coronavirus could be achieved in Bermuda if those who had travelled in the past fortnight and felt unwell simply stayed away from elderly people and those wi...

The Covid-19 strain of coronavirus is enveloping the world and approaching pandemic status. With more than 112,000 persons infected worldwide and close to 4,000 deaths — albeit that more than 75 per cent of those fatalities occurred at “Ground Zero” ...