OPINION

Who'll put the brakes on Minister Burgess?

Tom Vesey: Somebody needs to force Transport Minister Derrick Burgess to start practising responsible, collective government as it is accepted in modern democracies.

OPINION

Four key factors created this financial mess

Larry Burchall: The combining of these four facts - overspending, consequential borrowing, global recession, political pushback - has created Bermuda's present economic situation.

Our fight against gangs

Jonathan Smith: Operation Ceasefire is not an 'off the shelf' product that can be implemented overnight, or in a week, or even in several months.

It's a no-brainer - MPs will have to take a pay cut

Tom Vesey: Government spending has been growing fast and, now that the economy has taken a dive and the debts are due for collection, it has to cut back in a hurry.

A shrinking head count explains our money woes

Larry Burchall: If a politician [says] Bermuda is affected by the Great Global Recession, remind yourself that some people's world view is from the bottom of a deep, narrow, self-dug hole.
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OPINION

Young blacks are unfairly targeted by police

Lynne Winfield: The Police are trying hard to contain the gang violence, but blanket Stop and Search is not the solution to gang violence.

OPINION

Read the labels on foods before you buy - your health depends on it

Ric Chapman: A lot of the things that appear on processed products are seemingly written in Pigeon English, Latin, or Martian.

OPINION

We need to talk honestly to young people about sex

Shawnette Somner: With an increasingly larger number of STIs in persons 35 years and younger, we need to act quickly to educate and protect our youth.

Friday's Budget: what to look for

Larry Burchall makes some key predictions about Friday's Budget, which he describes as the most important in any Bermudian's memory.

Letter: Beware BELCO's twin towers

R. Ian Saunders: Pembroke residents and other concerned Bermudians have until 2nd March to submit objections to the Department of Planning about Belco's new towers.
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OPINION

How we'll get Bermudians back to work

Jason Hayward: The unemployed need help and they need help now. Since the beginning of the economic downturn, the unemployed have had no voice.

Technology coarsens the way young people communicate

Shawnette Somner: With the advent of new technology, our young people are swamped with information that many have a difficult time processing and are oftentimes uneducated about the proper and effective manner of its use.

BUDGET 2012

OBA's Richards: Budget is 'a bridge to nowhere'

In its preliminary response, the Opposition said today's Budget will do little to create jobs and 'nothing to stabilize our precarious financial situation'.

Why were revenue estimates so far off the mark?

Larry Burchall: Bermudians are suffering as the island sinks ever lower in the soggy swamp that senior financial professionals have helped create or allowed to grow.

OPINION

The One Bermuda Alliance is the party of 'No'

Walter Roban: By their words and by their actions the OBA appears to believe that if they cannot run Bermuda, they will have to destroy Bermuda.
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The Bermuda Sun bids farewell...

JUL 30, 2014: It marked the end of an era as our printers and collators produced the very last edition of the Bermuda Sun.

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