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Bermuda is facing financial disaster as a result of the coronavirus crisis — a recession that will make the Great Recession of 2008 look positively buoyant by comparison. This is not hyperbole; it is the only conclusion that can be drawn from Curtis...

Although Bermuda and the world are consumed, rightly, with the Covid-19 crisis now, it will come to an end, and at that time other problems and policy issues facing Bermuda will return. One such issue is education, and more particularly, public educ...

For all but the most introverted among us, humans are social beings, gathering together to talk, work, worship, dance, commune with nature, learn and, often, just enjoy being in one another’s company. This communion of souls does not simply serve as...

Bermuda’s history has been inextricably tied to its economy. With no natural resources and situated 700 miles from the nearest land, its people have always known that economic growth is not just desirable — it is a matter of survival. From early effo...

Curtis Dickinson cannot have upset too many people with his Budget yesterday, given that most of us are concerned mainly with how any changes will affect our own immediate financial wellbeing. That may well have been the political aim of the exercis...

Last week’s series on the Cayman Islands’ growth story sparked considerable debate among readers about how Bermuda can reinvigorate its own economy and raised some fundamental questions. Cayman and Bermuda have many similarities, as fellow British Ov...

Newspapers often get criticised for reporting only the “bad news”, but the announcement last week that there were no murders recorded in 2019 is good news indeed and should, with a caveat, be celebrated. The caveat, of course, is that Bermuda’s expe...

The term “Two Bermudas” has been bandied about over the years to the point of overuse. That is because it has come to mean all things to all people whenever the mood strikes — politics, education, immigration, religion, same-sex marriage, healthcare,...

Imagine a world where buying groceries worked like this: Each month, you pay a certain amount into a fund, call it a food premium fund, to cover most of your grocery-buying expenses. If you’re employed, you have to join with your work colleagues in ...

David Burt and the Progressive Labour Party can take a good deal of heart from the by-election result last week. Despite the low turnout, which the Premier rightly said was common for a by-election, the PLP romped to victory, maintaining a winning m...