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David Burt has stated that the Covid-19 lockdown is unlikely to extend beyond May 2. The Cabinet is to meet today to discuss which restrictions will be relaxed and which will remain in place. While many will be relieved that the four-week shelter-in...

There are those who will say that now is not the time to question the Government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The Royal Gazette is not among them. It is possible, as we have, to acknowledge and support the strong and apparently effective ...

Two days ago, a 35-year-old Australian by the name of Jonathan David was sentenced to six months and two weeks in prison, and fined A$2,000 (about $1,260). His crime, admitted to by way of a guilty plea in Perth Magistrates Court, was failing to fol...

The common cliché about facing a twofold challenge is that it is like flying an aeroplane at the same time that you are building it. Managing the Covid-19 crisis is the epitome of this because Bermuda’s leaders have to work to contain the virus and ...

The day we feared has arrived, with notification that Bermuda has suffered its first deaths as a result of the Covid-19 disease. It is a sad day for the country. It is a sadder day for the families affected — they have our prayers and sympathies. We...

Bermuda residents have embarked on a massive exercise in self-restraint — an acceptance of restrictions and the basic freedoms they usually take for granted. They have done so in the hope that this 14-day lockdown will prevent the widespread transmi...

On Saturday, Britain experienced its greatest spike in the number of daily deaths from the Covid-19 disease when 260 lost their lives, while the number infected approached 20,000. Meanwhile, in the United States, the leading and most respected medica...

“While an emergency does not create power, an emergency may furnish the occasion for the exercise of the power.” That statement was made by Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it ...

Although Bermuda and the world are consumed, rightly, with the Covid-19 crisis now, it will come to an end, and at that time other problems and policy issues facing Bermuda will return. One such issue is education, and more particularly, public educ...

Bermuda has its first two Covid-19 cases and almost certainly there will be more. At this point, Bermuda, to follow the coronavirus vernacular, is transitioning from the containment phase to the delay phase and, as best can be told, is trying to foll...