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Former MP John Barritt and his wife are paid approximately $1,500 by the airline after repeated rejections of their initial claim

Former MP John Barritt and his wife were told their flight was cancelled, only for it to be reinstated without notice

Public perception of the elderly should change in an attempt to stop them feeling “invisible”, the chairman of a specialist housing trust has said. John Barritt, the Bermuda Housing Trust chairman, added it was important to pay attention to seniors a...

Dear Sir, Normally, I don’t disagree with John Barritt’s columns. This morning, however, I think he has been afflicted by a serious failure of imagination. In his column about the proposed airport scheme, he acknowledges the faults of the traditional...

Tough: that is what we have been told to expect with the 2015-16 Government Budget. We will soon know whether that means tough for those who had to put it together, or tough on all the rest of us. Or both. No guesses or predictions or special wishes ...

Traffic, Mr Editor, traffic: it seems everyone has an opinion about the problem and the solution — and why not? We are all drivers, riders or users of the road in some way, form or fashion; and if we are all a part of the problem — and we are — then...

Maybe, Mr Editor, it is a waste of time and space going on about the need for greater collaboration and cooperation, as one keen reader of mine has suggested. Sure, they are fine words, he says, that need to be said from time to time, but nothing is...

Hindsight, as they say Mr Editor, is 20/20 vision. It is easy to say that they should have done this or they should not have done that. Nonetheless, there are always lessons to be learned from looking back. As I watched this week’s events unfold, I g...

The DPP decision was as confounding as it was disappointing, Mr Editor, on two fronts. We know this much: the appointment is in the discretion of the Governor. The Bermuda Constitution Order does not require him to consult with anyone or any one body...

Politics offers up plenty of twists and turns, Mr Editor, some of them predictable and some not so predictable. The unpredictable can be a pain. When asked what could scupper his government’s plans former United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Macmilla...

It was a criticism that was bound to be levelled, Mr Editor, and so it was. Bermuda could use an America’s Cup approach to public education. Everyone knows it too, and have known for a long, long time. How long? Long enough. Our political parties ha...