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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...

Dear Sir, I read with considerable interest the contribution from Peter Everson and Robert Stewart in The Royal Gazette of February 18, 2020 regarding the need to fix our education system. They are right, but they seem to be missing vital parts of t...

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...

Joseph Henry Thomas made a major contribution to education and to the formation of friendly societies in Bermuda in the years after emancipation. He was head teacher of the Lane School, the first chairman of the Berkeley Educational Society and helpe...

Mr Premier, I implore you to take your Brexit Committee seriously. In Britain this week, the Prime Minister’s special political adviser, Dominic Cummings, hired a 27-year-old adviser called Andrew Subisky. Within 48 hours, Mr Subisky had quit, owing ...

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...

Dear Sir, It saddens me to read the report in the paper today (February 10, 2020) quoting Jason Hayward’s comments on the Patients 1st assembly in Queen Elizabeth II Park. It would surprise me to know if the MP — the people’s representative from Pemb...

We are heading into the budget period and I am certain we will hear about a lot of new initiatives from the Government, but I would like to take this opportunity to state what I hope to see. The Progressive Labour Party can dismiss the Opposition’s ...

This column will not render a verdict on whether the White House decision last week to suspend immigration from Nigeria, the world’s seventh most populous nation, and five other countries was mainly an expression of bigotry from an administration led...

If we in Bermuda have a date with destiny, then it does not look too promising now. But it does not have to be that way! There are many external forces that we can do nothing about; however, many of our most festering wounds such as economic and immi...