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Post-Cup Match blues anyone?! Who doesn’t love a four-day weekend? It’s so nice to have the extra days to unwind. While I’m pretty sure that a four-day weekend would be a good long-term strategy for our mental health, it might not work the same for ...

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz To say I enjoy reading would be an understatement. A large part of my day involves reading — research reports, industry trade articles, investing blogs, and a smattering of geopolitical...

This is a look at the Labour Force Survey report issued in May 2020 issued by the Bermuda Government Department of Statistics. The report is based on data collected from the November 2018, May 2019 and November 2019 surveys. It presents survey highli...

One hundred years from now, how would historians have characterised this period we now call today. In the perspective of black history, how or in what context would this current period be labelled amid the 400 year travail, and assuming one hundred y...

Covid-19 appears to be slowing down in the earlier infected countries. And some economies are very carefully and slowly moving forward, but there are no full blown recoveries yet. We are reading and hearing about heightened stock market valuations, b...

This is part two of an article on suggestions to raise revenue during Bermuda’s covid recovery. Our government has utilised significant, precious financial resources to assist thousands of local residents: the unemployed, and those temporarily or mad...

This is part one of suggestions to Curtis Dickinson, Minister of Finance, to raise capital and jump-start the “new normal” Bermuda economy. The three most important responsibilities every government has towards its citizens, according to the World E...

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers in Bermuda. Moneywise has an invitation for readers. Please send me your mother/grandmother stories, recipes, and narratives of their wonderful survivor skills for the Bermuda Islander Survival Handbook. Every single...

In this time and place it helps the psyche to return to the basics, to the everyday things we do to make life worthwhile. Moneywise will return to discussions of financial matters in a few weeks. Right now we all just have to get through this unprece...

Last Sunday, during my morning stroll through Facebook, I glanced at a long thread. Perhaps one of the longest threads in recent local social-media history. More than 800 comments generated by an extremely false claim that the Bermuda Government was ...