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When David Burt called a snap General Election in 2020, he justified it on the basis that difficult economic problems were looming and the Government needed a mandate to take the hard decisions that would be necessary. Hard times are indeed here. Pr...

Last Friday, MPs were told they will be asked to make permanent anti-gang laws implemented on a temporary basis a decade ago. The laws mean that for crimes where gang involvement can be proved, those convicted can face up to five additional years in...

Bermuda has been beset by antisocial behaviour and youth violence throughout the Covid-19 pandemic — and some might argue that the present malaise has been ingrained for far longer. Reports of teenagers being murdered and others the victims and perp...

The Progressive Labour Party won its landslide election victory in 2020 because the party had handled the first part of the pandemic well, had some valid ideas for reducing inequity and because the opposition One Bermuda Alliance was weak and unprepa...

There was a time, and it was not that long ago, when the shooting murders of a 24-year-old man and an 18-year-old man within 48 hours of each other would have brought this community to a standstill. It is a sign of the times, and not one that anyone...

Bermuda is heading for a full-blooded constitutional crisis. The Cannabis Licensing Act was passed for a second time by the House of Assembly on Friday, and was tabled in the Senate on Monday. However, that tabling is a simple procedural matter. Hav...

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

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...

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...