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Dear Sir, I read with interest your Editorial (July 28) in which you cite Secretary [Colin] Powell and his approach to leadership. What fascinated me most was this portion from your own pen: “The ongoing coarsening of Bermuda’s political discourse, ...

Dear Sir, I wish to bring to your attention a community concern about the delay in the decriminalisation of small amounts of the herb marijuana. It is the opinion in my community that delays of implementation by the OBA, PLP, CS, and lack of action i...

Michael Dunkley launched a broadside against the Progressive Labour Party last night, accusing its leadership of “undermining the system to serve its narrow-minded, self-serving political motives”. The attack came after PLP MP Wayne Furbert announce...

An order will be put before the House of Assembly for a Commission of Inquiry into “serious allegations of extortion” made against three members of the One Bermuda Alliance who were then sitting government ministers. The notice was given yesterday mo...

News that the Bermuda Government would foot the bill for a defamation action taken by Bob Richards has been greeted with raised eyebrows by Progressive Labour Party MP Derrick Burgess. Mr Richards, the Minister of Finance, told Parliament yesterday t...

The Bermuda Health Council investigated complaints representing more than 4,200 employees in 2014, according to Minister of Health Jeanne Atherden. Last year the BHeC, in its capacity of enforcing employer compliance, saw that more than 60 per cent o...

Bermuda’s upcoming tobacco restrictions are draconian and possibly the strictest in the world, according to a tobacconist who will have to take 161 products off his shelves. “There is not another country in the world that is banning so many products,...

Behavioural standards in Bermuda have been declining for decades and much of it has to do with crumbling values in family life and the rules that govern basic instincts for not only what we say to each other, but how we treat one another. Many of our...

Wayne Furbert, the Shadow Minister of Business Development, intends to table legislation in Parliament on Monday to create a Commission of Inquiry into allegations of extortion and bribery made against two government ministers and a former Attorney-G...

Walter Roban, Shadow Minister of National Security, has criticised Michael Dunkley for being “out of touch and taking Bermuda in the wrong direction”. Mr Roban accused the Premier of attempting to carry out a miscarriage of justice against Marc Bean ...

Dear Sir, The news about Marc Bean being found not guilty takes me back to a day when we heard “it was not against the law, but it was unethical”. The trend with these fellow leaders is no surprise. The PLP should be so proud. To put the icing on t...

So goes the economy, so goes the Government. You think? I do, Mr Editor, I do. Economic conditions feature large in elections and Bermuda is no exception. Too early to be thinking about the next election? Maybe. But there again, maybe not. The One B...