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The old adage no battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy could apply equally well to government budgets, never more so than when the Covid-19 pandemic is added to the mix. So Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, deserves some sympat...

Economists, perhaps conscious of the difficulties of accurate economic forecasting, are reluctant to engage in hyperbole. Even if the sky was falling, they would find a way to explain why it might not happen, or why it might actually be a good thing....

Let’s be honest: few of us would have wanted Curtis Dickinson’s responsibility yesterday. To present your maiden national Budget in these uncertain times, knowing that decisions you make could cause a fragile economy to take a damaging turn for the w...

There is an increasing sense of exasperation evident among the captains of Bermuda’s offshore industry. The same irritation is also being expressed by employees of the sector’s local satellite businesses as well as by a growing number of professiona...

Ours is not a time of robust self-confidence and national pride. The prevailing mood is one of muted pessimism and concern; fatalism and resignation have largely replaced faith in ourselves and our country. For decades the buoyant Bermudian self-imag...