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The chairmen of the Board of Education and their Ministers have not always seen eye to eye in recent years, so it was good to see current chairman Darren Johnston backing Minister Dame Jennifer Smith this week. As Bermuda tries to improve public educ...

Former Premier Dr Ewart Brown pinpointed one of the most vexing problems for politicians when he said that people often say they want change, but rarely want to be the change. Dr Brown was referring to education, where despite a broad consensus in fa...

Premier Paula Cox delivers her first Budget in her new joint role as leader of the Country and Finance Minister tomorrow. In that sense, this is her opportunity to show what she can do when she is more than “a cog in the wheel” and to give a genuine ...

After a respite of some six months, Bermuda recorded a murder on Friday with the shooting of 29-year-old Colford Ferguson. Mr Ferguson has been described as coming from Warwick with a four-year-old daughter. What took him to Mangrove Bay in Somerset...

Reviewing the major events of the year, two major issues dominated crime and the economy. There were other significant watersheds during the year, notably the departure of Premier Dr Ewart Brown and the succession of Premier Paula Cox, along with the...

Government's legal initiatives for narrowing the gap between white and black attainment in Bermuda are well intentioned, but poorly thought out. Premier Ewart Brown's "Goodwill Plus" initiative has probably been criticised more because he did such a...