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In his speech to the Progressive Labour Party and in his later curtailed statement to the House of Assembly last month, David Burt provided some details on the Government’s plans to allow holders of private pension funds to withdraw a portion of the ...

Imagine a world where buying groceries worked like this: Each month, you pay a certain amount into a fund, call it a food premium fund, to cover most of your grocery-buying expenses. If you’re employed, you have to join with your work colleagues in ...

It took a while, but many people have awoken to just how extensive the Government’s proposed health financing reforms are — the recent Patients 1st meeting had an attendance that was essentially twice that of the consultation organised by the Ministr...

Bermuda likes to call itself “another world”, but it isn’t, really. The social problems that blight less balmy and picturesque places blight this island too, albeit on a much smaller scale. The question of what to do when families are fractured, when...

Tim Hodgson, who passed away yesterday, was a brilliant writer and journalist. Elsewhere in this newspaper, there will be a more exact record of his career, but a résumé does not do justice to Tim or his unique approach to life. I was fortunate to g...

David Burt and the Progressive Labour Party can take a good deal of heart from the by-election result last week. Despite the low turnout, which the Premier rightly said was common for a by-election, the PLP romped to victory, maintaining a winning m...

“When people are coming to talk to me in my office, they’re not saying they hate international business. They’re saying, ‘I’m not eating, my son’s not working, how do I get opportunities in this country? So how can I agree, Mr Caines, to you giving a...

The definition of a schoolyard bully is one who engages in proactive aggression with the expectation of gaining a reward. What reward, pray tell, was there to be gained from a union president piling in on a wet-behind-the-ears political candidate wh...

The late John Stubbs is best known today for being the name behind the “Stubbs Bill”, which decriminalised anal sex, or sodomy, in Bermuda. But as a parliamentarian of long standing, he was also a great student of politics and political behaviour. On...

Dear David, Why don’t you f*** off back to whatever n***** shithole you originate from and take that white, bestiality, n*****-loving whore wife of yours with you. You are nothing more than a fat, bashment-loving n*****. The only reason you are an M...