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The year 2020 is one that we would love to forget. But we can’t. It and its after-effects will linger well into this new year and beyond for all the pain and suffering it has caused — and will continue to cause. However, out of some of the gloomiest ...

The obituaries are being written for 2020. The common theme is good riddance and bring on 2021. This has indeed been one of the most difficult years in living memory. Only people who are in their mid-eighties or older will recall 1940, when the futur...

In July 2017, the Progressive Labour Party released its General Election platform. In it, it pledged to “reform public education by phasing out middle schools and introducing signature schools at the secondary level, which focus on the learning style...

The new owner of the Ascendant Group and its Belco subsidiary probably did not expect the first event of its new ownership to be an island-wide blackout. Nor can it be blamed for it. But the lack of explanation by Belco for the catastrophic outage is...

Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, has received generally high marks for his handling of the economic and financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. He has, rightly but with a suitable show of reluctance and many expressions of regret, ...

Norbert Simons first met Clevonte Lodge-Bean when he was a student at Whitney Institute Middle School. Mr Simons, a teacher and athletics coach, recognised immediately that the young man, not yet in his teens, had a rare talent for sprinting — still ...

Just six weeks ago, on October 5, Bermuda had a total of two active Covid-19 cases, the lowest number since the pandemic took hold. As of yesterday, there were 19 active cases, but the number had risen to as high as 27 at one point this month. Fortun...

On the heels of its historic mandate, the Government laid out an ambitious programme in its Throne Speech delivered last Friday in the Town of St George. Four hundred years after Bermuda’s legislature met in St Peter’s Church for the first time, the ...

Cole Simons’s accession as leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, and therefore Leader of the Opposition, signals that the party is beginning to accept its humbling at the polls on October 1 and is beginning the long process of rebuilding. That rebuildi...

Thanks to new statistics, it is possible to better gauge just how damaging the Covid-19 lockdown was to the economy and what the prospects for economic recovery are. Overall, the damage done was very high, but it was also varied. Tourism and related ...