OPINION
We're now spending more on debt than on tourism
The hike in personal payroll tax - previously at 4.75%, it effectively went up by 21% to 5.75% - confirms that Government spending remains out-of-control.
Bolstering safety is one of many ways we're improving the city
Last year, a new team was elected to lead the Corporation of Hamilton, with a mandate to bring change to the way the city did business.
We're on a debt roller coaster - and it'll only get scarier
Get a pretty Bermuda $2 bill. Holding it carefully by one corner, light a match and apply it to the lowest corner. Put the burning bill onto a fireproof plate. Watch it burn.
Lust for money drives the gambling debate: Society would pay the price
This whole Casino idea is a gamble. We're being asked to roll the dice on whether casino gambling will bring prosperity or calamity to Bermuda.
Gambling won't fix tourism's biggest problems
The main problems with tourism are things that gambling can't fix. We've lost our charm, we've become too crowded and busy, too expensive, too crime-ridden and too rude.
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Nationality has become as emotional an issue as race to Bermudians
How have Bermudians, particularly black Bermudians, reacted to the social changes caused by the massive economic shift of the 1990s? Initially, black Bermudians demanded a better racial balance.
The real Muppets blindly backed the Budget
Senator Marc Bean used his platform in the Upper House this week to call the environmental group BEST "discredited" and "a Muppet show". What I want to consider is exactly who, this week, the discredited Muppets are.
Work together to kill the roots of racism still plaguing our island home
Just 55 years ago the island was a divided country. There were two Bermudas, one black and one white. Much of the 1950s, '60s and '70s was a time of segregation, intolerance and racial injustice.
What are foreign consultants being paid $800k to do to our Corporations?
On January 22, Health Minister Walter Roban announced Government had awarded an $800,000 contract to McKenna, Long & Aldridge - a foreign firm with headquarters in Atlanta - to review all aspects of the municipalities of Hamilton and St. George's.
Xenophobia is contributing to our failing economy
The latest anti-Bermudian quotation attributed to Senator Burch is this: "It is a personal wish of mine that if you bring one foreign spouse and you divorce them, you can't have another one."
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FutureCare: Political scare tactics are blurring the facts
No matter how often she repeats herself, pretty much everything Louise Jackson has ever said about FutureCare is misleading.
My government has been weak in its response to gang violence
The brother of a previous gunshot victim is riddled with bullets, having been targeted in the same area around the same time in the wee hours of the night.
You'll start earning less tomorrow - and it's no April Fool's joke
The Payroll Tax increase joins up with the announced increase in the monthly premium cost for Government's H.I.P. Health Insurance scheme. Both increases take effect tomorrow, April 1, 2010.
We must look beyond black and white
There was way too much noise last week, on television news and radio talk shows, about the anticipated racial make-up of a 'Forum for Change' event outside the Cabinet Office on Friday.
I'm not the one creating confusion about FutureCare
It is my fervent hope all seniors have a better understanding of FutureCare following the concerns my colleagues and I have voiced over the past year.
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