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It’s time to step back from the threatening brinkmanship which has been masquerading as political discourse in Bermuda in recent weeks. It’s time to dispense with the overheated rhetoric and sometimes ludicrously overblown claims and counterclaims s...

The right to publicly express one’s views is a tenet of democracy. In recent times in Bermuda, we have seen demonstrations on issues including same-sex marriage, public-sector furloughs and immigration policy. For people to openly express their opini...

A hand-lettered sign was recently erected near the entrance to Hamilton, one both heartfelt and heartbreaking. It was a plea to save Gilbert Institute after the release of an education ministry reorganisation plan that included the Paget Parish prim...

Only two months into the new year and it is fair to say that 2016 has been the year of the demonstrator. With the initiatives that the Bermuda Government is hoping to push through in this the penultimate parliamentary year before the next General Ele...

Bob Richards has an unenviable task. His brief as finance minister is to take the tough actions necessary to keep the country from lurching into fiscal disaster, while not smothering a nascent economic recovery. And his brief as a politician is to pe...

One of the most important powers an elected official in Bermuda — or anywhere else, for that matter — can possess isn’t actually enumerated in any constitutional job description. It’s the power of persuasion, the talent to sway opinion — to win over ...

When Bob Richards rises in the House of Assembly this morning to deliver his Budget statement, he will be seeking to increase revenue and trim spending as the battle against the deficit continues. Indeed, with gross debt outstanding of more than $2.3...

Not only is no man an island, no island is an island entirely of itself. And Bermuda provides a prime case in point. Our geographic isolation notwithstanding, throughout its history Bermuda has always been a mid-Atlantic extension of the world aroun...

It can be argued that the greatest player in the history of cricket is chiefly responsible for the legal existence of an act that most infuriates players and fans, and which contravenes the spirit of the game. As a batsman, the most sought-after mile...

The simple fact is there’s never any growth without growing pains. Adolescence is always an uncomfortable journey from innocence to experience, a time of transition and turmoil and, on occasion, genuine crisis. Ultimately what has been called “the sp...