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The first rule of politics is generally understood to mean respecting your voters. But recently unveiled legislation proposing changes to insurance coverage for mammograms could only have reinforced the increasingly widespread view that Parliament i...

Bermuda is now one of more than 20 countries where thousands of people take part in annual Relay For Life events. Organisers and participants in the weekend’s highly successful sponsored walk at the National Sports Centre are to be congratulated for ...

Bermuda’s airport is rapidly becoming a case study in how not to proceed with a major infrastructure development project. Clearly some critics are more fixated on bringing Government down than with reconciling its public tendering procedures and comm...

There are times when you can well understand why Bermuda so appealed to David Letterman’s highly developed sense of the absurd. The late night talk show host, who signed off earlier this week after a 33 year career on NBC and CBS, famously deconstruc...

When the term “Loyal Opposition” was first introduced in the British parliament in 1826, it was greeted with more derision than enthusiasm by legislators on both sides of the aisle. This wasn’t entirely surprising. Until the early 19th century the d...

Wishful thinking clearly dies hard when it comes to the chronically bad behaviour of our political parties. For despite their ongoing preoccupation with muckraking and mudslinging, there are still a few dreamers among us who genuinely expect better f...

Bermuda’s political and business leaders have, by and large, resisted the temptation to issue any premature declarations of victory over the seemingly intractable recessionary conditions which have hobbled the economy since 2008. Despite the emergenc...

John F Kennedy was the consummate helmsman, figuratively and literally. His long political career, first as a Congressman and US Senator, then as America’s President, was a case study in steering and trimming his sails to take maximum advantage of co...

Before they took their rental mopeds out on the roads for the first time, local livery cycle operators in the 1960s and ‘70s used to remind wary visitors that Bermudians drove on the left side of the road. At least until the bars closed. Then they dr...

In a civil society like Bermuda, one where the liberties and privileges of citizens are protected by constitutional authority and the rule of law, we will always be obliged to respect the right of others to differ. And in a society based on diversity...