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On February 14, the front page of The Royal Gazette carried an attention-grabbing headline — “Famous: PLP must reach out to whites”. Not quite a heart-warming Valentine’s message, yet that headline managed to attract 326 comments. If anyone needed fu...

The following doubles as a response to the request for consultation on the Bermuda Government’s plans to introduce a sugar tax. Thank you for the opportunity to submit a response to the Government’s proposal to introduce a sugar tax in September 201...

The state of North Carolina is paying $300,000 to a magistrate who quit rather than marry gay couples as ordered by the courts. Something is seriously wrong here. The magistrate was entitled to resign as a matter of conscience. But the religious acco...

George Benson’s 1978 hit song, The Greatest Love of All, later popularised by Whitney Houston, has within it some very important phrases that are appropriate for our political dispensation. In particular, the words pertaining to the search for leade...

Donald Trump wants to arm teachers to prevent or reduce the carnage from future school shootings, such as the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, this month. “A teacher would have shot the hell out of him before he knew...

This is a friendly reminder to stay active and to keep in mind that three out of seven is usually a fail in most standardised testing. Please don’t score a three out of seven for your weekly nutrition and workouts. The science part The consensus in ...

Last Friday, we witnessed some more masterful manipulation by the Progressive Labour Party government with the release of the long-awaited LF Wade International Airport Redevelopment Project Agreement Review Report. Of all the days that the report co...

Bermudians should understand that the Progressive Labour Party government will never ever say the airport project is a good deal for Bermuda — no matter the facts, no matter the positive professional judgments on the deal. Even by its own consultant,...

It has become a widely accepted tenet of modern economics that markets are flawed and need fixing by experts to engineer desired outcomes. At the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, which just concluded, the International Olympic Committee appeared to take ...

Budget time is also a time to think about taxes and tax systems. The Budget speech lamented that the tax system exacerbates the gap between the rich and poor. I recall making the same speech. The Government has pledged to find a new system to help to...