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Bermuda’s history has been inextricably tied to its economy. With no natural resources and situated 700 miles from the nearest land, its people have always known that economic growth is not just desirable — it is a matter of survival. From early effo...

Curtis Dickinson cannot have upset too many people with his Budget yesterday, given that most of us are concerned mainly with how any changes will affect our own immediate financial wellbeing. That may well have been the political aim of the exercis...

Last week’s series on the Cayman Islands’ growth story sparked considerable debate among readers about how Bermuda can reinvigorate its own economy and raised some fundamental questions. Cayman and Bermuda have many similarities, as fellow British Ov...

Long before the tragic death of Kirsta Simons, The Royal Gazette has been snapping at the heels of the Department of Child and Family Services as a result of reports getting back to us that young people in government care were not getting the best ou...

The turn of a decade is often the occasion when pundits look back on the successes and failures of the previous ten years and look ahead to the future. There always will be pedants who insist that the new decade does not start until 2021, and others...

Curtis Dickinson’s pre-Budget report makes for depressing reading and shows the enormity of the task before the finance minister as he prepares to present his latest Budget in the next few weeks. At first glance, there might appear to be some green ...

Newspapers often get criticised for reporting only the “bad news”, but the announcement last week that there were no murders recorded in 2019 is good news indeed and should, with a caveat, be celebrated. The caveat, of course, is that Bermuda’s expe...

The term “Two Bermudas” has been bandied about over the years to the point of overuse. That is because it has come to mean all things to all people whenever the mood strikes — politics, education, immigration, religion, same-sex marriage, healthcare,...

American President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said in the depths of the Great Depression that “we have nothing to fear but fear itself” — and this captures the economic quandary Bermuda is in as 2020 dawns. When businesses and individuals have c...

The argument between David Burt and Progressive Labour Party chairman Damon Wade helps to show why the Premier’s recent assault on the status quo and white establishment businesses is bad for the economy, bad policy — and probably won’t help the peop...