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There was some good news in the 2011 tourism figures released on Monday by Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert. Mr Furbert, who took over the Ministry in the October Cabinet reshuffle, was able to announce that total arrivals increased by 12 percent to a...

There’s a good deal of political point-scoring going on around Parliamentary salary cuts, and it is important to remember first principles in this. First, it is welcome news that the Progressive Labour Party Government has finally embraced the idea ...

What is shocking about the fact that Boulevard Football Club forfeited its match against Somerset Trojans after two of its players were given what amounted to death threats if they crossed Somerset Bridge is that no one was very shocked by the news. ...

More than the many other business closures of recent months, the announcement that the Green Lantern restaurant on Serpentine Road is to close has resonated deeply in the community. The owners of the 70-year-old institution have blamed the decision o...

Bermuda has long had regulations designed to ensure that much of the transport of goods and materials is done by trucks, and not by tractor trailers. The rationale seems to have been twofold. One was to protect the small independent trucker. It was ...

Auditor General Heather Jacobs Matthews ends her special report on the misuse of public funds with this statement: “In my opinion, this entire situation is deplorable and represents a blatant disregard for the public purse and a lack of transparency ...

It’s not every day that you see an employer celebrating after its staff have achieved union recognition. But that’s what happened this week when the Corporation of Hamilton signed a collective bargaining agreement with the Bermuda Public Service Uni...

There rarely seems to be a time when the statement “Bermuda is different” is meant in a positive or exemplary way. Instead, it always seems to be as a rationale for shoddy service, poor performance or some other exception to the rule. It is difficul...

Yesterday’s announcement that some 30 more jobs will be lost at investment companies shows that the recession is far from over. And the loss of three jobs at the Bermuda Zoological Society shows how the recession is hurting the non-profit sector, ev...

Dr Joseph Froncioni has long been the leading advocate for making Bermuda’s roads safer. As a surgeon and later as chairman of the Road Safety Council, he saw too many examples of lives being lost or irreparably injured not to do something about it....