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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” ...

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...