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Secrecy still surrounds the decision-making that led to a payout of almost a quarter of a million dollars from the public purse to 28 people who protested outside Parliament on December 2, 2016, and their lawyers. Five years on from the infamous clas...

A new government administration keen to prove its ability to jump-start an economy left moribund after the recession of 2008 came to the public with a major infrastructure proposal in 2014. Communications staff for Bob Richards, the finance minister,...

The violence of December 2, 2016 is the sole reason the day’s protests endure in memory, according to a Progressive Labour Party MP. Christopher Famous was a PLP organiser when he joined demonstrators outside the House of Assembly on the morning that...

The single protester who refused to accept a confidential government payout to people pepper sprayed outside Parliament five years ago today still wants his day in court. Craig Looby insists police used excessive force during a clash with demonstrato...

As he watched from the balcony of the House of Assembly, Sylvan Richards knew that what he was witnessing marked the end of the OBA as a government. Mr Richards, who made it into the House just ahead of protesters blockading the gates, said he knew “...

In July 2019, David Burt gave a passionate speech in Parliament about the infamous December 2 protest – an event he had helped organise two-and-a-half years earlier when he was Opposition Leader and which had already spawned three separate inquiries....

Politics played a role in the Progressive Labour Party’s targeting of the One Bermuda Alliance’s airport development – but former MP Michael Scott insisted the project was foremost “an inherently bad deal for the country”. The former PLP Attorney-Gen...

Reporter Sarah Lagan covered the December 2 protest for The Royal Gazette. Five years later, she looks back on the chaotic and frightening events of that day. Chaotic, frightening and heartbreaking are just a few words that sum up the events of...

Five years after that fateful day of December 2, 2016, when protesters were attacked as they called for transparency, we are still living with the effects of the flawed airport deal. To date, Bermuda has paid out $41 million in minimum revenue guaran...

Deborah Brown, mother of OBA MP Nandi Outerbridge: “I saw the protesters standing in the front lines shoving Nandi in the chest with their hands and arms … They were shoving her and preventing her from walking through the crowd and towards the ga...

Politics irrevocably tainted a review of the events of December 2, 2016 – such that two One Bermuda Alliance senators involved saw no point in attempting a report of their own. “At some, what are you going to gain?” asked Ben Smith, who with Marcus J...

The fifth anniversary of the December 2, 2016 parliamentary protest falls a week today – and The Royal Gazette will mark the occasion with in-depth coverage of the infamous event. That flashpoint in Bermuda’s history, when demonstrators blocked MPs f...