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Today — Earth Day — a petition will be officially launched aimed at creating a 25-cent fee attached to paper and disposable plastic bags. It is being coordinated by Greenrock and the Bermuda Marine Debris Taskforce, an informal group of interested in...

Anthony Francis sounds like a man with a mission — a mission which cannot be allowed to fail. As the new chairman of the board of CedarBridge, he says in today’s Royal Gazette: “Berkeley, Warwick Academy and TN Tatem all have history — we’re creating...

Drinking and driving in Bermuda is a national pastime and, unfortunately, socially acceptable. So is speeding on the roads. According to police statistics, 76 people were arrested for impaired driving after accidents last year. No doubt, that does no...

How many times have you almost knocked down a ‘third laner’ trying to switch lanes? How many times have you experienced erratic driving because a motorist is too busy texting? How many times have you seen a mangled bike at the side of the road? The ...

It was not so much what was said, it was the order in which it was said that was instructive. Jobs, debt, jobs, small business, entrepreneurs, jobs. That was the first seven pages, then came tourism and then crime. Hitting all the right buttons early...

Yesterday, this newspaper called for shock tactics to be used to address our behaviour on the roads in the wake of five deaths in as many weeks. Today, on this page, Joseph Froncioni, a former chairman of the Bermuda Road Safety Council, says: “Speed...

Allegations made against Education Minister Nalton Brangman by Walton Brown that he did not take some qualifications mentioned on his CV are extremely serious. In the overall scheme of things, the actual qualifications referred to are really neither ...

Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley in today’s paper says he supports doing away with conscription — music, no doubt, to the ears of many a young man in Bermuda. But is it the right time to go down that route? Question: What are some of the major ...

One of the most important recommendations to be adopted out of the Hopkins Report on education was the implementation of an internationally recognised examination for Bermuda’s students. Prior to this, public schools were limited to Bermuda exams, w...

Government has been claiming in Town Hall meetings that GCSE pass rates this year are 90 percent or higher — using G as a pass. Despite repeated requests from this newspaper, the Ministry of Eduction is refusing to release the detailed results until ...