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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 ...

To say that Gladstone “Sad” Brown was the glue that made Devonshire Recreation Club stick is an understatement. True, there have been many revered figures who have put their hearts and souls into the “Green and Gold”, the Den, the Home of the Cougars...

From the moment that the Bermuda Union of Teachers suggested that the Premier get involved in the dispute that has thrown public education into crisis, you could take that in the least as a subliminal vote of no confidence in the Ministry of Educatio...

Neil Speight handing in his resignation as chief executive of the Bermuda Cricket Board recently was not so much a case of him abandoning a sinking ship but a matter of affixing an oxygen tank to his back with flippers to deliver him from the ocean d...