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Michael Cohen didn’t push the story forward very much in his testimony to the House Oversight Committee yesterday morning, although there were some interesting hints about what federal prosecutors in New York might still be looking into. But he did c...

Recently we’ve been spending a lot of time talking about finding solutions to car and bike accidents in Bermuda. Really, for a country our size, the amount of accidents and road fatalities seem out of proportion. Statistically we are also above the a...

Theresa May tried to execute a U-turn yesterday while claiming to remain utterly consistent. Having promised dozens of times to deliver Brexit on time on March 29, she told Parliament yesterday she would support a short delay to the exit date if that...

“The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power” — John Stuart Mill Michael Fahy Now that we are bang in between the Budget and the Budget Reply we can’t lose sight of the...

Most critiques of online activity and social media are neither rigorous nor helpful — by which I mean, they do not adequately explain why spending so much time online might be problematic and, if it is, what to do about it. Allow me to offer a tentat...

There are six kinds of grouper: monkey rockfish, finescale rockfish, Nassau grouper, misty grouper, yellowfin rockfish and black grouper. These six grouper species used to be on the menu and for sale across Bermuda. However, now we have only one larg...

When Bermuda’s voters gave a landslide electoral victory to the notoriously protectionist Progressive Labour Party in July 2017, we wrote that the election could well prove “the final mis-steerage that drives the country’s economy off the proverbial ...

The Budget presented on Friday was a display of political spin. The feel-good presentations and the facts tell two completely different stories. The facts are that gross domestic product estimates for growth have been revised down by half, revenue fo...

Let’s be honest: few of us would have wanted Curtis Dickinson’s responsibility yesterday. To present your maiden national Budget in these uncertain times, knowing that decisions you make could cause a fragile economy to take a damaging turn for the w...

There is reason to celebrate the first Budget surplus in many many years, but the way in which that surplus was achieved sullies things. An accounting sleight of hand shuffled the “mandatory” sinking fund contribution to capital spending thereby avoi...