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‘Tis the season for polls, apparently. Two political polls have come out in successive days, one from Walton Brown and the other from Mindmaps, The Royal Gazette’s regular pollster. While there are differences between the two, with Mr Brown’s tending...

Yesterday’s editorial dealt with the poor state of the Bermuda economy and many of the causes of the current recession. As it stated, it was not intended as a blame-assignment exercise but as a means of determining how to fix the problem and how to a...

Like the swell on the South Shore before a hurricane, the bad economic news keeps rolling in on Bermuda’s own economic storm, making a mockery of Premier Paula Cox’s unfortunate use of the term “post-recession”. In just the last week the Island’s two...

It could not have been that long after humans worked out how to speak, and then how to use symbols to write down words, that slander, and its sister, libel, came along. And it is likely that punishments and remedies for this kind of behavior did not...

Every now and then, it is good to give out praise where it is due. Here goes: Last week, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Senator Kim Wilson was criticised in this space for saying she would not be paying a parking ticket as she believed that sh...

Political parties are formed because people of similar political philosophies join together to try to gain power in order to put those ideas to work. It’s that simple, and it’s what makes the talks now apparently going on between the United Bermuda ...

There's an old Calvinist idea, very popular in the days of flinty New England puritanism that helps to explain why Americans launched their revolution against Britain and why there is today such a thing as American exceptionalism. It is the idea that...

There was a time when the Tourism Board counted as one of the more important statutory boards in Bermuda. While the Minister of Tourism’s decisions were final, the board vetted contracts, was engaged in marketing Bermuda and had real sway. Over tim...

Last week’s story about the rise in demand for food and shelter for the homeless is yet another reminder that Bermuda remains in the depths of recession. The problem becomes especially severe in the winter months as this year’s unseasonably cold weat...

Reviewing the major events of the year, two major issues dominated crime and the economy. There were other significant watersheds during the year, notably the departure of Premier Dr Ewart Brown and the succession of Premier Paula Cox, along with the...