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Let’s be honest: few of us would have wanted Curtis Dickinson’s responsibility yesterday. To present your maiden national Budget in these uncertain times, knowing that decisions you make could cause a fragile economy to take a damaging turn for the w...

Herbie Bascome is a happy man, having been named Bermuda cricket coach, and he is entitled to be. So, too, Lloyd Smith, the president of the Bermuda Cricket Board. Happy and relieved that they managed to survive a shambles of a press conference last ...

There is no doubt that David Burt is the greatest orator of our times. Coincidentally, he is also the Premier of Bermuda, the leader of the country, a position that carries with it great power. The power to move mountains, the power to sway opinion a...

To say that Gladstone “Sad” Brown was the glue that made Devonshire Recreation Club stick is an understatement. True, there have been many revered figures who have put their hearts and souls into the “Green and Gold”, the Den, the Home of the Cougars...

The legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once alluded that football was more important than life and death. But those who know the Liverpool story will appreciate that his famous quote came some time before Hillsborough, and it came before Heysel...

The time is nigh when our legislators are required to take a hard look at Bermuda’s use of social media, in particular where it pertains to horrific life-and-death situations being repurposed for an apathetically cruel sense of self-importance. In a ...

From the moment that the Bermuda Union of Teachers suggested that the Premier get involved in the dispute that has thrown public education into crisis, you could take that in the least as a subliminal vote of no confidence in the Ministry of Educatio...

The phrase “it takes a village to raise a child” is frequently uttered in Bermuda — so often, perhaps, that it’s become something of a trope. We all understand its noble meaning — that we, as a society, are all responsible for bringing up the island’...

What’s another million dollars? Nothing if what you believe you are doing is right and in the best interests of your people. That is the conundrum the Bermuda Government is faced with in the wake of an entirely predictable defeat in the Court of Appe...

Silly season is soon upon us. The country’s parliamentarians reconvene in the House of Assembly in seven days on the promise of behaving significantly better than they did during an extended 2017-18 session that kept 35 generally well-intentioned peo...