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Two reports released recently show how Bermuda is failing to recover from the recession. The Bermuda Labour Market Survey reported that there was a net loss of 700 jobs last year, including 100 held by Bermudians. In three years, 2,800 jobs have been...

In a letter in today’s newspaper, Nicola Feldman, of The Coalition for the Protection of Children, calls for the introduction of a Poverty Reduction Strategy Plan. In an editorial last week, this newspaper called for the consideration of a ‘poverty s...

Throughout the week, we have been highlighting how it is becoming increasingly difficult for many people in Bermuda to make ends meet. This newspaper’s The Cost of Living series has shown how electricity bills have gone up 70 percent in eight years, ...

Public Works Minister Michael Weeks has said he will consider releasing the report into how the $4.1 million thruster wall at Heritage Wharf in Dockyard was damaged. He needs to do so as a matter of urgency, and he also needs to release all the info...

It would be nice to think that the increase in the February Retail Sales Index in value terms over the same month in 2011 is a harbinger of the long awaited economic recovery. Sales rose by 0.2 percent in February, the first year over year increase ...

There have been occasions when it has been necessary to close the comment section on specific stories on our website, www.royalgazette.com. People have asked why, often complaining that it is stopping their right of freedom of speech. We strive to gi...

In most people’s minds, Good Friday is associated with religion, kites, marbles and fishcakes, but for many it will also be tied to the brutal murder of Kimwandae Walker on Victor Scott Primary School’s field during a community day. That unsolved mur...

If you missed the Carifta Games, you really missed a superb event. There was a fantastic atmosphere at the National Sports Centre with the stands full over the weekend. It really was a terrific spectacle — and the noise matched that spectacle as the ...

How many times have you seen a new development springing up and seen the same old hibiscus planted in what seems like a token effort of landscaping? Why can’t it be a condition of planning approval that every new building has to be properly landscape...

This should ring alarm bells: “There was no business. It's simple,” Cracker Box owner David Rowntree said. “We could not cover the costs. The economy and tourism in St George's are dead!” Cracker Box in St George's is closing after more than three d...