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The real test of leadership is not on the horizon; it’s staring us in the face. While we may be spectators, if any major escalation that resembles civil war in the United States occurs, it will have a huge and direct impact in Bermuda — as it did in ...

Regarded as the most powerful country in the world, America will soon attempt to move a step closer to the land where, internationally, it is seen as the place where regardless of race, religion or political persuasion, one can under a system of de...

Our planet and society seems to be at yet another tipping point. Earlier this year, fires burned on the West Coast of the United States and scorched more than four million acres of land. To compare this catastrophe, it was equivalent to 303 Bermudas...

The world continues to learn the truth about the principle of not just being a democracy, but the effort it takes to maintain one. Woven into that idea is the notion of a republic where the people are the authority — the fine line between order and d...

The pandemic will eventually end, leaving us more free to ponder what to keep from all the changes it has wrought. One obvious candidate is open-access scientific journals. Most relevant scientific advances on the Covid-19 front have been put online ...

“The Bermuda model is broken” — economist Robert Stubbs “But if we called it income tax instead of payroll tax we could deduct that from our US income tax. And Bermuda would have an income tax and get everybody off our back. Just a litt...

One of the Intensive Care Unit nurses approached me again as I was coming out of a patient room and asked when the vaccine for Covid-19 will become available in Bermuda. As before, we both keenly agreed that we would gratefully receive it when it fin...

Have you ever noticed how you can find a cliché for almost every occasion? Two came to mind during 2020’s last session of the House of Assembly, when MPs gathered, virtually, to pass laws affecting all of us. One cliché was “something’s better than n...

It is with sadness and a heavy heart that I present this submission regarding the proposed closure of West End Primary School. I am disappointed that the Ministry of Education believes it can provide the best of education for our children without tru...

One of the most important jobs of being an MP is to continuously stay in touch with your constituents. At any given time of the day or night, those who voted for you — and even those who did not vote for you — will reach out to you. Sometimes, more o...