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Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeatedly miss its opportunities. In Bermuda’s case, our general lack of familiarity with our Island’s long story has repeatedly undercut efforts to put the Island on the map as a cultural tourism destinati...

We live in a world where slogans, sound-bites and soothing memes are increasingly being substituted for substance. We live in a world where it’s increasingly common to find inverted commas placed around the word “scientist” by those who believe scie...

In a democratic society such as Bermuda, where the rights to freedom of belief and expression are bedrock principles enshrined in our Constitution, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But not to their own facts. Absolutely no one is entitled t...

Think of them as gold-plated, bulletproof and tamper-proof pension plans. The retirement benefits enjoyed by the Island’s public sector employees are generous, enviable and, given a stubbornly sluggish economy and diminished tax base, wholly unsustai...

The arithmetic is simple but compelling. In Bermuda, 43 per cent of Government spending goes toward public sector salaries and benefits. So very close to half the Government Budget is already earmarked for payroll and associated expenses before a sin...

The One Bermuda Alliance was elected to office based in part on promises to restore order and a sense of fiscal responsibility to our public spending. But almost two years on, the Island’s debt remains the gargantuan white elephant stampeding around ...

Ernest Hemingway only got it partly right. Not only does nobody feel sorry for a pampered girl crying on a yacht, nobody feels sorry for a pampered anyone bemoaning their fate on the deck of a floating symbol of privilege and luxury. Despite the best...

Even by today’s deplorable standards, some of the venom being aimed at the Bermuda Tourism Authority seems entirely excessive given this is actually an innocuous body dedicated to boosting visitor numbers and not, say, the local arm of ISIS. Yet its ...

It’s proved to be an extremely abbreviated victory lap for the Corporation of Hamilton. Just months ago the Home Affairs Minister was issuing iron-fisted threats to shut down the scandal-tarnished and serially inept municipal government. But in a rar...

Inscribed on Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s tombstone is a verse from the Book of Genesis: “They said to one another, ‘Behold, here cometh the dreamer... let us slay him... and we shall see what might become of his dreams’.” The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize la...