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For those who don’t follow these things with the avidity of a football fan during a World Cup, Jason Hayward announced last week that GDP had shrunk by 1.7 per cent in real terms compared with the same April to June period in 2021. The reason, the M...

Anyone expecting an overarching plan to dramatically improve Bermuda’s moribund economy while containing the rise in the cost of living will have been disappointed in the Throne Speech yesterday. The Government’s lack of ambition may actually be righ...

When the Throne Speech is delivered tomorrow, the Government is likely to strike a balance between laying out its policy and legislative plans for the year and the philosophy underpinning them. Some past speeches have been longer on philosophy than ...

Politics isn’t Sunday school, Lawrence Scott said after he was unceremoniously sacked from the Cabinet last week. But this was still a surprisingly ruthless move from David Burt, the Premier, and even for Mr Scott, who saw his own father forced out o...

Defeat has consigned Curtis Dickinson to the farthest recesses of the PLP back bench

Political parties bring together people who share similar political views with the goal of forming a government to implement those views through laws and policies. In order to do that, the party must win an election and must find leaders who can bot...

The recently released road traffic collision statistics for the third quarter of 2022 showed a marked improvement year-on-year, and the Bermuda Police Service rightly should be commended for what has been achieved since Operation Vega came into effec...

Bermuda’s economy grew by 5.4 per cent in 2021, according to Jason Hayward, the economy and labour minister. While the minister, in releasing the gross domestic product figures for last year, conceded that the economy at $6.3 billion had not recover...

Three weeks ago, Britain got a new prime minister after Liz Truss was elected leader of the Conservative Party. Ms Truss became the leader of the British government not as the result of a General Election, or even because a majority of elected Conse...

Comedian and former US Democratic senator Al Franken often recounts a joke made by Republican senator Lindsey Graham. Mr Franken tells it like this: "Lindsey Graham is hilarious. “For instance, when he was running like 15 out of 17 in the Republica...