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Imagine you are the Premier, and the family of a frail, elderly woman contacts you and pleads for help because a Progressive Labour Party House of Assembly candidate owes her substantial rent arrears — what do you do? Well, if you’re David Burt, you ...

January is meant to be a month of hope. A month to set us on the path to redemption and renewal after the travails and challenges of the 12 months gone by. A month of new year’s resolutions. But this has been a cussed two or three years, and instea...

The Government has been criticised, with good reason, for its recent handling of the surge in the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The breakdown of the testing system and the delays in reopening schools were all predictable; while no one expects ...

Presumably recharged from his Christmas vacation, David Burt tried to regain control of the agenda this week. Politically this was a necessity after the Covid-19 testing debacle that followed the Christmas and new year’s holidays and continues to wr...

The shambles surrounding Bermuda’s much hyped Covid-19 testing system worsened at the end of last week with the resignation of Dr Carika Weldon as the Government’s scientific adviser. Dr Weldon returned to Bermuda from the UK at the beginning of the...

If the experience of other countries is anything to go by, the greatest threat from the Omicron variant is not that it will cause serious symptoms and widespread death, but that its rapid transmission will paralyse everything from hospitals to shops ...

2021 ends tomorrow at midnight, and even if there were not a curfew in place, it is likely that farewell celebrations would have been muted. Most people will have had better years than this one. The trouble is it is also hard to muster up much enthu...

Children today still like to play with Slime, which first gained popularity in the 1970s when it was marketed primarily as a disgusting looking green substance sold in a pretend plastic trash can. Its attraction, if that is the word, lay in its slip...

Bermuda recorded the 17th road fatality of the year on Christmas Day when 26-year-old Dennis Saunders was killed in a three-vehicle collision. This equals the highest number of deaths recorded in the past 40 years. If there is another death before t...