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The difference between propaganda and reasoned argument is the difference between a beef bouillon cube and Kobe beef. Like their counterparts elsewhere, Bermuda’s politicians and their surrogates have a tendency to tailor their preferred public relat...

When we said last Friday that incidents the like of which resulted in the death of Shijuan Mungal last year could happen every day in Bermuda, it was not done to apportion blame to the slain teenager. Nor was it done to take a pop at our young people...

The just concluded murder trial of Kiahna Trott-Edwards is as good a case as any to exemplify the depth of societal breakdown in Bermuda. Two people, unknown to one another before that fateful day on September 8 last year, thrust into a narrative tha...

Economic inequality is increasingly an issue on the Island and not only between those who have jobs and those who do not. The widening gap between the best paid in our community and the lowest paid should not be ignored. On an Island of this size, t...

Not too long ago in historical terms Bermuda really was another world, certainly when it came to its social and cultural development. The Island’s political and civil arrangements were throwbacks to another era, with its affairs still largely in the ...

Short-termism is a common weakness of democracy. More often than not, it seems politicians will shy away from dealing with a major problem that requires making tough, long-term decisions that are likely to be unpopular. This trend is particularly mar...

Upon the completion last weekend of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event in Gothenburg, Sweden, all eyes turned genuinely towards Bermuda. After all that has been said and written, that superyacht of possibilities is heading our way fas...

Bermuda’s politicians are, rightly, being upbraided in some quarters for elevating magical thinking to the status of guiding philosophical principle. Wishing something to happen and actually making it happen are very different things. One involves w...

The origins of freedom of speech can be traced as far back in history as the signing of Magna Carta in early 13th-century England. King John, backed into a corner after recent defeats on the battlefield and disagreements with the Pope, was forced to...

How we manage our personal finances is a key factor in the standard of living we enjoy. It can influence the education we can give our children, the type of home in which we live and whether retirement is truly a period of “golden years” or a grim b...