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Many of Government’s submissions to the UK on Bermuda’s future Overseas Territory status are sensible. Some are prime examples of wishful thinking. The submissions are being made as Britain and the OTs review their relationship for the first time si...

This editorial has been corrected. Premier Paula Cox has rightly said she wants to improve levels of transparency in Government. This is not only the right thing to do on its own merits, but is badly needed for her Government after the previous admi...

Few people will have been sorry to see the back of 2011, a year in which the Bermuda economy continued to decline and the spectre of serious crime still hung over the Island. So it is better to look forward rather than backwards, although it is to be...

Earlier this month, countries from around the world agree the “Durban platform”, designed to lead to cuts in carbon emissions and therefore reduce the effects of climate change. That agreement did not get a great deal of attention, perhaps because th...

Many people, especially whites, will be tempted to dismiss National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief’s comments that if 16 young white men had been killed as a result of gun violence then the UK government would have intervened. And on the face of ...

It’s something of a tradition for the media to report hard luck stories at Christmas. This has always been somewhat flawed, because people suffer and struggle all year round, and often don’t get the attention they need except at Christmas time. Par...

It’s an unfortunate fact of life that two shooting incidents in about as many weeks, as well as a number of other armed incidents, have raised fears about the possibility of violence over the holiday season. This newspaper appeals to all not to allo...

The fight that has broken out between the owners of KFC and their employees over their union contract symbolises the economic challenges of Bermuda and its people. But the company could have handled the situation differently. KFC's contract with th...

The Royal Gazette’s latest political poll showed the One Bermuda Alliance maintaining its lead over the governing Progressive Labour Party. The OBA became the first opposition party in years to lead in a poll when it took a 38 percent to 32 percent l...

There has been an astonishing response to the case of Mrs O, the 98-year-old woman suffering from dementia who lives on her own with very little support or care. Caring residents have given money to ensure that she gets meals and funding to take care...