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Bermuda could learn a thing or two from our fellow British Overseas Territory, the Cayman Islands. There are many similarities between the two of us, but it is clear that Cayman has been outperforming us economically since the global financial crisis...

“In a democratic country possessing representative institutions, sometimes it is necessary to defer to the opinions of other people.”;— Winston Churchill For a full week the drumbeat of discontent grew louder by the day; not just on the streets of H...

Government should listen to the people. That’s what we’ve been hearing from protesters in the grounds of the House of Assembly this week and they are, of course, right. That is the whole purpose of our democratic system: that the electorate can insta...

Yesterday presented yet another sign that Bermuda is hurtling uncontrollably towards a status that is not of the First World variety that we often claim to possess. It did not require a high-priced sleuth to figure out that Chris Furbert and the Reve...

It’s time to step back from the threatening brinkmanship which has been masquerading as political discourse in Bermuda in recent weeks. It’s time to dispense with the overheated rhetoric and sometimes ludicrously overblown claims and counterclaims s...

The right to publicly express one’s views is a tenet of democracy. In recent times in Bermuda, we have seen demonstrations on issues including same-sex marriage, public-sector furloughs and immigration policy. For people to openly express their opini...

A hand-lettered sign was recently erected near the entrance to Hamilton, one both heartfelt and heartbreaking. It was a plea to save Gilbert Institute after the release of an education ministry reorganisation plan that included the Paget Parish prim...

Only two months into the new year and it is fair to say that 2016 has been the year of the demonstrator. With the initiatives that the Bermuda Government is hoping to push through in this the penultimate parliamentary year before the next General Ele...

Bob Richards has an unenviable task. His brief as finance minister is to take the tough actions necessary to keep the country from lurching into fiscal disaster, while not smothering a nascent economic recovery. And his brief as a politician is to pe...

One of the most important powers an elected official in Bermuda — or anywhere else, for that matter — can possess isn’t actually enumerated in any constitutional job description. It’s the power of persuasion, the talent to sway opinion — to win over ...