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Three political newcomers are to run in St George’s in the General Election. Dwain Smith of the new Free Democratic Movement will stand in St George’s West, the One Bermuda Alliance’s Thomas Harvey will contest the same seat and James Perry of the OB...

The Progressive Labour Party was accused of “stunning hypocrisy” yesterday for its barrage of abuse of the airport terminal development. The attack by Douglas DeCouto of the One Bermuda Alliance brought a sharp response from the PLP, which criticised...

Up to 75 uniformed services jobs are under threat from cutbacks, the One Bermuda Alliance claimed yesterday. Ben Smith, the shadow national security minister in the last government, said personnel in the police, prison and fire services had predicted...

Listening to the United States presidential election and the deep divide, you can’t help but think that they are so dangerously close to civil war as a result of rampant hatred and the two-world realities shown dramatically by the media. It takes no...

Coalition, you ask? Not likely, I should think. Granted it is always a mathematical possibility, regardless how faint. But the polls we have seen to date would seem to suggest otherwise; although a lot, of course, can happen between the time polls we...

Party leaders David Burt and Craig Cannonier traded barbs over the weekend about their party’s records in power. Mr Burt, the Premier and leader of the Progressive Labour Party, said at a virtual rally on Saturday that his administration had kept its...

More education is needed to help end the stigma of mental health and addiction, campaigners have said. The Bermuda Mental Health Foundation added it would continue to work with whichever party was in power after the October 1 General Election and tha...

The Premier said yesterday he wanted to renegotiate the project agreement for the airport to put its revenues and profits back into Bermudian hands. But David Burt said that discussions could not be held until the airport, constructed through a publ...

Victory in the battle against Covid-19 is vital if the already battered economy is to recover from the pandemic’s financial impact, an economist said yesterday. Craig Simmons, a senior economics lecturer at Bermuda College, added that control of the ...

A total of $1 billion could be injected into the economy by a string of major construction projects — including public-private partnerships, the Minister of Finance has said. Curtis Dickinson said that Bermuda must balance economic growth with “maint...

A Progressive Labour Party government would boost the economy with major public and private-sector building projects valued at more than $1 billion if it was re-elected, it said in its just-released platform. The PLP added it would use the proceeds o...

The One Bermuda Alliance said that it would make public healthcare and effective social support “matters of national security and the highest economic priority”. The party outlined its plans on healthcare, climate change and protecting the vulnerable...