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Curtis Dickinson’s statement on Friday on why he resigned as finance minister is a textbook example of statesmanlike conduct. It is also a reminder of how badly Bermuda needs someone of Mr Dickinson’s calibre managing the finance ministry. Mr Dicki...

The House of Assembly has completed the Budget Debate, which has devolved into an annual exercise in futility by Members of Parliament, laced with contempt for the people who elected them to office. The debate is not futile because the Budget is uni...

David Burt became finance minister for the second time in February and his decision to add that portfolio to his duties as the Premier left a number of unanswered questions. Still unknown is the question of whether he plans to turn over the portfolio...

Different sections of the community will be celebrating or mourning this week after the Privy Council upheld the Government’s laws creating civil unions for same-sex couples but banning same-sex marriages. While the decision, by four judges of Bermu...

Lifestyle choices at the heart of driving up cost, putting unsustainable pressure on the health system

Bermuda Football Association is wrong to give public the silent treatment over referees’ boycott

In yesterday’s Budget Statement, David Burt made this observation: “There are many persons in our community who, in some way, shape or form, have become disillusioned by politics and government.” The reason for this, the Premier and now finance minis...

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...