Bermuda is considering implementing a minimum wage. It should proceed with caution.
Simple supply and demand would appear to dictate that if wages were increased, then this would lead to a fall in jo...
It would be an indictment on Bermuda if it failed to use up the stock of Covid-19 vaccines that has been generously provided by the British Government and, more recently, the Covax organisation.
Ther...
Forty years ago today, Bermuda was rocked by what would become the island's first and, to date, only general strike. The ramifications of that strike remain with the island to this day.
Bermuda was a ...
The effort to contain the pandemic has often been compared to a war. Although imprecise, the comparison is apt.
In that context, there is, despite the recent and tragic surge in cases and deaths, a se...
Historian Michael Jarvis's opinion last week on previous epidemics in Bermuda was timely.
He rightly said it has been so long since countries in the Western world experienced epidemics, let alone pand...
Imposing stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders for prolonged periods of time has always depended on the consent of the people.
When Bermuda embarked on its efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
David Burt said last night that he knew he was delivering the news that no one wanted to hear, not even those people who were expecting or even calling for further restrictions to arrest the wave of c...
On Sunday evening, it was announced that two people had died of Covid-19 over the weekend, the first deaths since January and the thirteenth and fourteenth since the beginning of the pandemic.
Last ni...
Passing the Budget is the single most important act carried out by Bermuda’s Parliament in any given year.
Pedants will point out that the Budget itself does not get passed and has no legal standing. ...
Last Friday night, with little debate, the most ambitious changes to Bermuda’s education system in decades sailed through the House of Assembly.
Perhaps that is the price when the governing party has ...
