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Why do we need a Human Rights Act when we already have a Constitution? In a Letter to the Editor published on December 19, Mr Khalid Wasi commented on the recent ruling of the Chief Justice, in the “Bermuda Bred” case concerning the grant of work per...

A group opposing same-sex marriage in Bermuda claims its support base has grown to almost 200 people, after a meeting last night. Preserve Marriage now has 198 volunteers committed to ensuring that homosexual couples cannot legally tie the knot on t...

Good day, My name is Debre Evans, I am 15, and I seem to have a bigger heart than most of you people. Why do you hate gay people? There’s no reason good enough to hate someone so much that you drive them to a point where they want to kill themselve...

Dear Sir, Following up on my previous letter of December 10, titled “Leave notion of marriage to society”, where I made the point that Chief Justice Ian Kawaley’s ruling could give one the impression that persons’ rights as asserted by the Human Righ...

Michael Dunkley was quizzed yesterday about conscription, same-sex marriage and the size of the Civil Service during an online chat with readers of The Royal Gazette. The Premier spent 50 minutes at his computer at the Cabinet Office answering questi...

Dear Sir, I realise the dangers of throwing my hat into such a sensitive ring, but for the sake of tolerance, I take the risk. If a couple of the same sex wish to live together in harmony, there needs to be no law. They should also agree to deny cla...

It is important after reading the recent headlines in the newspaper regarding Mark Pettingill and the judgment passed by the Chief Justice, to hear another opinion on the debate on same-sex marriage from a professional other than those of the legal f...

Dear Sir, I sat on the Human Rights Commission when its Act gained primacy over all the Acts; essentially meaning that whenever an Act came into conflict with the human rights law, the Human Rights Act would be the determinant. I am not a lawyer, bu...

A complaint will probably be made to the Human Rights Commission about a hotel’s refusal to host two talks by a same-sex marriage opponent. Melvyn Bassett, spokesman for a group going by the names Preserve Marriage and Concerned Citizens of Bermuda, ...

A same-sex couple’s application to marry remains “under review”, according to Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs. However, Senator Fahy said that the Matrimonial Causes Act 1974 “makes it clear that a marriage other than between a man and a w...

Mark Pettingill, the lawyer for a same-sex couple seeking to marry in Bermuda, has expressed little surprise that the Registrar-General’s office had not posted his clients’ marriage notice by the close of business on Friday, as required. The office w...

A mother has described her gay son and his partner as “very courageous” for launching a bid to have Bermuda’s first same-sex marriage. Sylvia Hayward-Harris told The Royal Gazette it was typical of her son Ijumo Hayward to “not worry about public app...