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Green shoots of encouragement could be found from one end of the island to the other in the wake of Hurricane Humberto. The resolve of Bermuda in genuine times of stress yet again proved unbreakable — not so much a show of arrogance in the face of im...

Recent news of redundancies at Butterfield Bank and at Bermuda Security Group, and the recent announcements of retail store closures, must raise grave concerns about the state of the economy. This may seem alarmist, given the most recent government ...

In church halls up and down the country yesterday, prayers were said for our brothers and sisters in the Bahamas. Hurricane Dorian, the joint strongest Atlantic storm ever to hit land with sustained winds of 185mph, has left in its wake a trail of de...

If public access to information requests are being “weaponised”, as David Burt recently claimed, then The Royal Gazette’s publication of primary school results shows there should be a Pati arms race. That’s because, for the first time in living memor...

It’s no real surprise that Ascendant Group shareholders voted to sell their company to Canadian energy company Algonquin Power and Utilities Corporation despite cogent arguments being made against the sale of one of the island’s largest remaining Ber...

This weekend, human and civil rights will take centre stage as two celebrations take place — the Bermuda Pride event on Saturday and Labour Day on Monday. The events are likely to draw different crowds. The Pride event, which celebrates diversity in...

No one would compare the Bermuda Census on Population and Housing to a bestseller, but occasionally it produces a statistic that truly jumps off the page. One such statistic is this: median income for Bermudians aged over 65 is just $27,983. This co...

Today should be a day for lauding the Bermuda cricket team’s perfect start yesterday to the ICC T20 World Cup Americas Qualifier, for patting ourselves on the back for banging on that Delray Rawlins should be representing his homeland, and for praisi...

For the past three years or more, the one bright spot in the Bermuda economy has been the tourism industry. Helped by the publicity surrounding the 35th America’s Cup and a tightly focused digital marketing strategy, visitor arrivals and the other k...

“Symptomatic treatment” is the phrase medical professionals use to describe attempts to treat the symptoms of a problem rather than its cause. In her newly announced health insurance reforms, Kim Wilson may have fallen into this trap. The health mi...