The annual Budget Debate is behind us. Time to take stock. How was it for you? The debate, I mean.
Frankly, I wonder how many people bothered to listen in. Even for a period of time.
Mind you, there w...
The Bermuda Legislature is threatening to catch up to 21st century governance. I kid you not.
A Joint Select Committee (JSC) is proposing an independent commission of legislators to manage the operati...
The value of an independent, objective opinion is not to be underestimated, particularly perhaps in politics, and not withstanding if it is the work of a lawyer. No, Mr Editor, I am not thinking of my...
The politics of distraction, some call it. I am not so sure. It’s all plain politics, if you ask me: the good, the bad and the ugly.
We really shouldn’t be too surprised either. Politics is what po...
Politics will change when politicians change, one reader told me after last week’s column. He has a point. Albert Einstein put it another way: “The world as we have created it is a process of our thin...
The devil is in the detail when it comes to the Budget and the beauty of the Budget Debate is that MPs are given the time to examine Government accounts a.k.a. the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure...
You asked, Mr Editor, for my take on the 2014/15 Budget. Here you go in no particular order: —
First, I thought the Statement was pretty faithful. It followed the One Bermuda Alliance script as we hav...
He said, he said, all right: a good headline, Mr Editor, and a fair summation of what has become a sad, sorry spectacle. Sordid too: disclosure of the existence of a surreptitious tape recording by on...
There is nothing quite like a good PQ to start the day — on the Hill, that is, where parliamentary questions (PQs for short) are now a featured part of the day’s agenda. It is known as Question Period...
A good sound education, that’s usually everybody’s favourite answer for what it takes to get ahead in this world. I do not disagree. But an education goes beyond what students are taught within the fo...
