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Think of them as gold-plated, bulletproof and tamper-proof pension plans. The retirement benefits enjoyed by the Island’s public sector employees are generous, enviable and, given a stubbornly sluggish economy and diminished tax base, wholly unsustai...

The arithmetic is simple but compelling. In Bermuda, 43 per cent of Government spending goes toward public sector salaries and benefits. So very close to half the Government Budget is already earmarked for payroll and associated expenses before a sin...

The One Bermuda Alliance was elected to office based in part on promises to restore order and a sense of fiscal responsibility to our public spending. But almost two years on, the Island’s debt remains the gargantuan white elephant stampeding around ...

Ernest Hemingway only got it partly right. Not only does nobody feel sorry for a pampered girl crying on a yacht, nobody feels sorry for a pampered anyone bemoaning their fate on the deck of a floating symbol of privilege and luxury. Despite the best...

Even by today’s deplorable standards, some of the venom being aimed at the Bermuda Tourism Authority seems entirely excessive given this is actually an innocuous body dedicated to boosting visitor numbers and not, say, the local arm of ISIS. Yet its ...

It’s proved to be an extremely abbreviated victory lap for the Corporation of Hamilton. Just months ago the Home Affairs Minister was issuing iron-fisted threats to shut down the scandal-tarnished and serially inept municipal government. But in a rar...

Inscribed on Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s tombstone is a verse from the Book of Genesis: “They said to one another, ‘Behold, here cometh the dreamer... let us slay him... and we shall see what might become of his dreams’.” The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize la...

Politicians are a risk-averse breed as a rule. Not for them any grand deed or word, any principled beau geste, which flies in the face of the popular mood. Not for them any bold initiative which challenges outdated but entrenched social conventions o...

Bermuda used to be as much a state of mind as a mid-Atlantic micro-state, a community of shared values, shared duties and shared responsibilities. Helping one another, demonstrating genuine compassion, conviction and concern for our neighbours, was a...

What Stuart Hayward and Dr Wolfgang Sterrer so aptly termed “Bermuda’s delicate balance” in the early 1980s has more than once grown wobbly in subsequent decades. In their book of that title the authors made the point it wasn’t just the Island’s ecol...