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If the experience of other countries is anything to go by, the greatest threat from the Omicron variant is not that it will cause serious symptoms and widespread death, but that its rapid transmission will paralyse everything from hospitals to shops ...

It is a fairly simple task to pillory Wayne Furbert for his recent ham-handed handling of plans to reform the Bermuda Post Office. The Minister for the Cabinet Office blundered into a storm of controversy when he defended plans to have the Post Offi...

“This is not who we are, this is not what we want to be known for, this is not the way of life we want for ourselves or for our children.” So said Darrin Simons, the Acting Commissioner of Police, in the wake of Tuesday’s mass shooting in the Robin H...

The Delta variant of Covid-19 is well and truly in Bermuda now. Last night, the health ministry reported that 92 people had Covid-19, up from just 19 a mere three weeks ago. Of those 92 cases, the vast majority are the Delta variant, which is more i...

It may be that the Government’s plans to close half of the island’s primary schools are so popular and make such good sense that that is the reason there has been virtually no opposition to the announcement last month. But that seems unlikely. But i...

Crime stories have been vying with Covid-19 headlines for attention in recent days, and that is bad news for Bermuda. Two different shootings that left four people wounded on Court Street over the past eight days have been the most shocking incident...

Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch insisted in the House of Assembly last Friday that the demolition of the historic house Wantley will go ahead despite objections from community organisations. The Minister of Public Works defended the decision in a sta...

Spare a little sympathy — just a little — for Clarien Bank. When it announced that it was giving $100,000 to assist Black and members of other underrepresented groups to pay their school fees at private schools, its executives presumably expected to...

It would be an indictment on Bermuda if it failed to use up the stock of Covid-19 vaccines that has been generously provided by the British Government and, more recently, the Covax organisation. There are countries of millions of people, often poore...

On Sunday evening, it was announced that two people had died of Covid-19 over the weekend, the first deaths since January and the thirteenth and fourteenth since the beginning of the pandemic. Last night, 69 new cases were announced after 108 new cas...