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While anything is possible in politics, it seems pretty certain now that the United Bermuda Party and the Bermuda Democratic Alliance will join forces within the next few weeks. In practical terms, this is sensible. The risk with any divided opposit...

Bermuda’s public transport system is at the sharp end of the growing battle over Budget cuts. It won’t be the last battleground, as shown by today’s march on the Cabinet Office, but what is happening is instructive. It is not clear why the system i...

The Ministry of Tourism and the Tourism Board deserve credit for starting a website where members of the public can contribute their ideas for improving tourism. This is a welcome initiative because it will make the process of building tourism more t...

Yesterday’s feature on the problem of financing pensions and health care for seniors helped to humanise what can often seem to be an esoteric and academic subject. It is anything but. As the comments from the senior citizens soon-to-be retirees show,...

Premier Paula Cox’s message to the country last Thursday night was rightly focused on the two issues of paramount importance to the Island crime and the economy. Having recently run into the first real problems she has experienced since becoming Pre...

Retail sales plunged again in February, dropping 8.8 percent in real terms compared to 2010 and marking the 34th consecutive month that they were in decline. This came after a poll in this newspaper that showed that around ten percent of the responde...

Another weekend, another murder. The shooting death, almost assassination style, of David Clarke on Sunday night is yet another sign that the violent crime which has afflicted Bermuda for the last 18 months is not over and may be entering a new phas...

Hope always springs for tourism around this time of year. Too often, those same hopes are dashed by the end of the year, and the excuses have begun. There’s some reason to think that this year might be different but there are danger signs as well. T...

One poll does not make a politician’s career, and it doesn’t break it either. But Premier Paula Cox and the Progressive Labour Party should be concerned about the rapid drop in popularity of both the Premier and the party in the latest polls from Min...

(Reuters) Japan’s triple calamity of a huge earthquake, tsunami and a nuclear crisis has prompted an outpouring of sympathy, but that could turn to frustration if Tokyo fails to get the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years under control in coming month...