Long overdue reforms to a Dickensian legal system. Pending hikes in health insurance premiums. A potentially seismic shift in Bermuda’s energy policy. There’s been a flurry of genuinely important deve...
The jaunty lyrics of the Disney song notwithstanding, the actor’s life is very rarely a “Hi-diddle-dee-dee!” existence. And it’s certainly not the life for everyone.
The usual trajectory of an actor’...
The first rule of politics is generally understood to mean respecting your voters.
But recently unveiled legislation proposing changes to insurance coverage for mammograms could only have reinforced ...
Bermuda’s airport is rapidly becoming a case study in how not to proceed with a major infrastructure development project. Clearly some critics are more fixated on bringing Government down than with re...
There are times when you can well understand why Bermuda so appealed to David Letterman’s highly developed sense of the absurd.
The late night talk show host, who signed off earlier this week after a ...
When the term “Loyal Opposition” was first introduced in the British parliament in 1826, it was greeted with more derision than enthusiasm by legislators on both sides of the aisle.
This wasn’t entir...
Wishful thinking clearly dies hard when it comes to the chronically bad behaviour of our political parties.
For despite their ongoing preoccupation with muckraking and mudslinging, there are still a f...
Bermuda’s political and business leaders have, by and large, resisted the temptation to issue any premature declarations of victory over the seemingly intractable recessionary conditions which have ho...
John F Kennedy was the consummate helmsman, figuratively and literally. His long political career, first as a Congressman and US Senator, then as America’s President, was a case study in steering and ...
Before they took their rental mopeds out on the roads for the first time, local livery cycle operators in the 1960s and ‘70s used to remind wary visitors that Bermudians drove on the left side of the ...
