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“When people are coming to talk to me in my office, they’re not saying they hate international business. They’re saying, ‘I’m not eating, my son’s not working, how do I get opportunities in this country? So how can I agree, Mr Caines, to you giving a...

The late John Stubbs is best known today for being the name behind the “Stubbs Bill”, which decriminalised anal sex, or sodomy, in Bermuda. But as a parliamentarian of long standing, he was also a great student of politics and political behaviour. On...

Bermuda is now well on the road to recovery from Hurricane Humberto, and it is impossible to ignore the reality that it is the fourth serious hurricane to have done damage to our island in the past five years. Hurricanes Fay and Gonzalo hit in 2015 ...

At the beginning of his speech to the Progressive Labour Party delegates conference on Monday night, David Burt warned the audience: “Fasten your seatbelts.” In this, at least, the Premier was not indulging in hyperbole or exaggeration. Towards the ...

The Government’s decision not to hold an Opening of Parliament ceremony is a dangerous sign of how lightly the present administration regards the customs and mores that underpin Bermuda’s democracy. There is no legal requirement to hold a formal Ope...

Green shoots of encouragement could be found from one end of the island to the other in the wake of Hurricane Humberto. The resolve of Bermuda in genuine times of stress yet again proved unbreakable — not so much a show of arrogance in the face of im...

Recent news of redundancies at Butterfield Bank and at Bermuda Security Group, and the recent announcements of retail store closures, must raise grave concerns about the state of the economy. This may seem alarmist, given the most recent government ...

In church halls up and down the country yesterday, prayers were said for our brothers and sisters in the Bahamas. Hurricane Dorian, the joint strongest Atlantic storm ever to hit land with sustained winds of 185mph, has left in its wake a trail of de...

If public access to information requests are being “weaponised”, as David Burt recently claimed, then The Royal Gazette’s publication of primary school results shows there should be a Pati arms race. That’s because, for the first time in living memor...

Cheryl-Ann Griffin. Remember her? The Shelly Bay resident who was central to the protests in her neighbourhood that led first to the withdrawal of Tom Steinhoff’s development plans at Shelly Bay Beach and then to the Bermuda Tourism Authority’s very ...