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Typically, opinions about the upcoming Budget given in the days and hours before it is delivered are exercises in futility. The Budget is usually already written and should be coming back from the printers by the time most of these viewpoints are de...

Julian Hall, the late lawyer and politician, once had a newspaper column called “Through the Looking Glass”. He said he named it after the sequel to Alice in Wonderland because in the Lewis Carroll novel, Alice enters a strange new world through a l...

Picture the attendant photograph for a minute. Taken at a Progressive Labour Party family fun day, it represented everything that was fresh, young and, let’s say, progressive, about a movement on the rise: the green machine. A tsunami that swept up e...

“Learning to live with Covid” must be an early front-runner for the most used phrase of 2022. It is precisely what most communities have been doing since it became clear that the Covid-19 pandemic would not go away of its own volition and that vacci...

It is more than timely that the benefits of attracting world-class sport to our shores have manifested in the donation of almost $650,000 to charity by the 2021 Butterfield Bermuda Championship. In a week that has been dominated by calls from politic...

Imagine you are the Premier, and the family of a frail, elderly woman contacts you and pleads for help because a Progressive Labour Party House of Assembly candidate owes her substantial rent arrears — what do you do? Well, if you’re David Burt, you ...

January is meant to be a month of hope. A month to set us on the path to redemption and renewal after the travails and challenges of the 12 months gone by. A month of new year’s resolutions. But this has been a cussed two or three years, and instea...

The Government has been criticised, with good reason, for its recent handling of the surge in the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The breakdown of the testing system and the delays in reopening schools were all predictable; while no one expects ...

Presumably recharged from his Christmas vacation, David Burt tried to regain control of the agenda this week. Politically this was a necessity after the Covid-19 testing debacle that followed the Christmas and new year’s holidays and continues to wr...

The shambles surrounding Bermuda’s much hyped Covid-19 testing system worsened at the end of last week with the resignation of Dr Carika Weldon as the Government’s scientific adviser. Dr Weldon returned to Bermuda from the UK at the beginning of the...