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The Government’s decision not to hold an Opening of Parliament ceremony is a dangerous sign of how lightly the present administration regards the customs and mores that underpin Bermuda’s democracy. There is no legal requirement to hold a formal Ope...

November 4 will be upon us before we know it. That date is significant in that it will be the first public holiday in Bermuda to recognise the contributions that Portuguese have made to these islands over the past 170 years. Without question, there h...

From the first session of what would become the House of Assembly 399 years ago, Bermudians have always been fiercely independent, much to the chagrin of past governors and others sent to assist the island in its governance. Indeed, the closest Berm...

With Walton Brown’s death, the Progressive Labour Party has lost one of its more thoughtful and cerebral leaders, and is the poorer for it. Mr Brown, who was just 59 at the time of his passing, was destined to be involved in politics from an early a...

Plans to extend maternity leave to 13 weeks of paid leave and the introduction, for the first time of five days paternity leave, passed with overwhelming support in the House of Assembly last week and swept through the Senate as well. There’s much t...

Leaders in every walk of life must make decisions based on the facts available to them at the time. Those decisions invariably require judgment and some effort to predict the future. It requires identifying and balancing risks and rewards, determini...

As a young man in sport, Zane DeSilva was a goalkeeper with Somerset Eagles. He wasn’t the best; he wasn’t the worst, either. But this week, in football parlance, you could say he simply threw one in. How did the tourism minister think it would go ov...

You can find some real doozies on social media, but few warrant a wider airing as does the ongoing rant over Buzz and its newly unveiled 3 per cent voluntary gratuity. The management of the fast-food franchise got more than a handful in the online co...

Green shoots of encouragement could be found from one end of the island to the other in the wake of Hurricane Humberto. The resolve of Bermuda in genuine times of stress yet again proved unbreakable — not so much a show of arrogance in the face of im...

Recent news of redundancies at Butterfield Bank and at Bermuda Security Group, and the recent announcements of retail store closures, must raise grave concerns about the state of the economy. This may seem alarmist, given the most recent government ...