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Last week, Tourism Minister Ewart Brown discussed the latest tourism figures for the Island and announced a raft of new initiatives, including plans for a hotel grading system. The headline for the story was “Cruise figures lift tourism gloom”, which...

Leave policy alone October 31, 2005 Dear Sir, If Dr. Grant Gibbons considers Bermuda College?s decision not to allow Gina Spence Farmer to sit in the Senate while an employee, I wonder how he considers his decision to make a political football of tho...

No one disagrees that there is a housing crisis in Bermuda. However, the depth of the problem and its social repercussions seem to elude many of us. I believe that the lack of affordable and adequate housing is only the tip of the iceberg that is thr...

Aside from its main thrust on Independence, there is a fair amount of meat in the Throne Speech, particularly on housing. But it is also notable for what is missing, especially on the Social Agenda, which dominated last year?s speech. While many item...

The men from the pages of a bad spy novel throw people they don’t like into secret prisons that officially do not exist, snug little dungeons hidden away in undisclosed countries. These spy-novel men keep to the shadows; if a ray of sunlight happens ...

Aside from its main thrust on Independence, there is a fair amount of meat in the Throne Speech, particularly on housing. But it is also notable for what is missing, especially on the Social Agenda, which dominated last year’s speech. While many item...

Government has laid its cards on the table. Bermuda should become independent. This, of course, is no surprise. The Progressive Labour Party has always supported Independence, and so has Premier Alex Scott. But he was somewhat coy about the Governmen...

Government has laid its cards on the table. Bermuda should become independent. This, of course, is no surprise. The Progressive Labour Party has always supported Independence, and so has Premier Alex Scott. But he was somewhat coy about the Governmen...

Iran’s new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears determined to pursue a radical agenda — but analysts ask whether he will be allowed to stay on a path that risks paralysis of the state and confrontation with the West. “The pressure is growing inside ...

November 3, 2005 Dear Sir, I spoke to Ms Robinson and Ms Denbrook, acting principal and counsellor of the Berkeley Institute, concerning my daughter?s schedule and the omission of a foreign language (Spanish). I was informed at this time that a decis...