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The recent news has been flooded with commentary on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). This tends to be a more leftist leaning theory that supports big government spending and large deficits that get monetised by a central bank. Basically, governments cr...

Remember what it was like when you landed your first “real” job? The light-footed way you glided through the lobby, the thrill you felt when you opened your first box of business cards, the nervousness of recording your voice message? You were going...

A 90-year old widow with a developmentally disabled adult child struggles with the everyday cost of living while trying to make sense of the proposed government budget tax and social service increases. This is a hypothetical composite case based on r...

Within a few short months, hundreds of our young adults will be standing together wearing caps and gowns for their respective high school graduation ceremonies. A culmination of between 12 and 13 years from primary school to senior school. The sum to...

In the third of a five-part series of articles in conjunction with the Bermuda’s Demographic Challenge series, Bill Storie looks at Generation X. Today we will discuss the 35 to 50-year-old age group. Commonly referred to as “Gen-X”. In Bermuda this...

As part of the Bermuda’s Demographic Challenge series running all this week in The Royal Gazette, Bill Storie will be writing for a series of five columns to view the issues related to our ageing population through the eyes of different ages. The fi...

Brexit, trade wars between China and the United States, commercial and diplomatic tension between Saudi Arabia and Canada, the dissolution of the North American Free Trade Agreement, aside from the Middle East crisis with migration worldwide and Berm...

If you ask any politician what is the most common question that they are asked, it will be without a doubt something along the lines of: “I am looking for a job. Can you help me out?” Unfortunately, we all know someone who is either underemployed or ...

A long time ago, or should I say “once upon a time”, while there was yet darkness in the lands, simultaneously there existed the brightness of a hope for a better day. The 1940s saw a band of newly educated persons pushing in the areas of education, ...

As we know, Christmas Eve is traditionally one of the busiest days in any country. With Bermuda being no exception, locals are focused on: shopping, visiting, bar-hopping and domestic duties. Those duties include cooking, changing curtains, washing d...