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The world continues to learn the truth about the principle of not just being a democracy, but the effort it takes to maintain one. Woven into that idea is the notion of a republic where the people are the authority — the fine line between order and d...

Have you ever noticed how you can find a cliché for almost every occasion? Two came to mind during 2020’s last session of the House of Assembly, when MPs gathered, virtually, to pass laws affecting all of us. One cliché was “something’s better than n...

A lack of preparation and a failure to connect with voters led to the One Bermuda Alliance’s overwhelming defeat at the last General Election, the party’s leader admitted yesterday. But Cole Simons, who took the reins about a month after the October ...

President Donald Trump made his final effort to overturn the 2020 election yesterday, as his allies challenge the electoral college count in Congress. His earlier efforts failed when the Supreme Court rejected Texas's lawsuit to throw out the results...

The Free Democratic Movement may have been out of the spotlight since its election defeat but it is gearing up to address the public early in the new year. This is according to Eugene Dean, a founding member of the island’s third political force who ...

The obituaries are being written for 2020. The common theme is good riddance and bring on 2021. This has indeed been one of the most difficult years in living memory. Only people who are in their mid-eighties or older will recall 1940, when the futur...

Although the Premier’s decision to call a General Election midway through a parliamentary term had come as a surprise, the result of that contest was probably never in doubt. On October 1, Bermudians went to the polls and gave David Burt one of the b...

All nasty comments aside, perplexed readers wondered what I meant when I wrote of the need for reinvention for 2021 in my last column. Fair enough folks. It was in the context of our battle to contain and to defeat Covid-19 — where and when possible....

A leading scientist for tracking the coronavirus in Bermuda reassured the public yesterday that human error rather than a “glitch” in the testing system had led to some getting sent incorrect results. Carika Weldon apologised after 24 people were giv...

A probe to find the cause of an island-wide blackout last week was still under way yesterday. Dennis Pimentel, the Belco president, added that a report on last Friday’s outage would be sent to the Regulatory Authority. He said: “Once the investigatio...

Forced transfers of primary pupils to other schools as part of a major shake-up of the education system could cause huge trauma, the shadow education minister warned last night. Ben Smith of the One Bermuda Alliance said: “We should be really worried...