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Some members of the large field of Independent candidates running in this general election have promoted the idea that voters should support Independents in general, presumably as a protest against the party system. It does not make much sense otherw...

Five years ago, the Progressive Labour Party spent a good deal of effort dismissing the United Bermuda Party’s warnings that crime was getting worse. The PLP’s spin doctors trawled through the records in search of a year under a UBP government when ...

The Progressive Labour Party platform released last week is, at first glance, an impressively thick document weighing in at some 40 pages, and covering everything from the economy to youth issues. The theme of the document, with a collage of the fac...

Bermuda is commonly referred to as being in a recession. But at this stage it is probably more accurate to describe it as a depression. The technical definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of reduction of gross domestic product. Bermud...

One of the most important recommendations to be adopted out of the Hopkins Report on education was the implementation of an internationally recognised examination for Bermuda’s students. Prior to this, public schools were limited to Bermuda exams, w...

Yesterday’s feature on employment and immigration helped to lay out the two parties’ different positions on this critical election issue. And the story does illuminate the fact that the Progressive Labour Party and the One Bermuda Alliance do have se...

Although it remains a divisive topic, this newspaper has taken the stance in recent years that people who have committed crimes and paid their debt to society should not be barred from running for office. But that does not mean that a candidate who ...