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Under the guise of “emergency powers” and fearmongering, the Premier has instilled a post-Covid authoritarian regime like no other. To come out of this, we need a quick-jolt recovery, financial stability and sustainable economic growth. Time is not o...

Trust in our political leaders should be the cornerstone of a healthy democracy; that belief that politicians and their ministries will act in our best interests. Distrust in politics is corrosive to a healthy democracy and in Bermuda this has become...

The following poem was written in honour of Sir John Swan, the former Premier of Bermuda, receiving the Legacy Insight Award at Leopards Club on Friday: As we preserve our history for posterity The name Sir John will reverberate through the ages...

David Burt is acting “almost like a dictator” by holding three major Cabinet portfolios at once, one of the Premier’s best known predecessors has warned

Some readers will remember, with widely different perspectives, the events around the independence referendum of 1995. Some may remember it as the beginning of the end for the United Bermuda Party and certainly the end of the premiership of Sir John...

Two major property deals carried out more than 50 years ago were fraudulent, a hearing into allegations of land grabs ruled. A report from the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses said that several men were part of a “criminal conspiracy” ...

Bermuda will lose an ally at the heart of the US establishment after a veteran congressman with Bermudian ties retires, a former premier warned yesterday. Sir John Swan said the decision by GK Butterfield, whose father was Bermudian, to stand down u...

The former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell enjoyed a friendly relationship with Bermuda and its former premier Sir John Swan in particular. Worldwide, the soldier and diplomat was perhaps best known for his prominent role in the US inva...

Sir John Swan, a former premier, dismissed claims yesterday that the island’s property and development industries were once like “the Wild West” in which corruption was rampant. Sir John was speaking at yesterday’s session of the Commission of Inquir...

Sir John Swan said he legally purchased a plot of land in Sandys that was the subject of a complaint before the Commission of Inquiry. The family of the late John Augustus Alexander Virgil claimed he lost four acres of land in the Spring Benny area ...

Bermuda can emerge from the Covid-19 crisis as “a more just and equitable society” that looks after its people better, a former premier believes. But Sir John Swan argues that to generate the resources to enable that to happen, the island will need t...

If we in Bermuda have a date with destiny, then it does not look too promising now. But it does not have to be that way! There are many external forces that we can do nothing about; however, many of our most festering wounds such as economic and immi...