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Former Progressive Labour Party MP tells a court the aim was to tarnish the image of the party

The Government has been accused of political interference after the appointment of a former PLP MP to the board of the independent Regulatory Authority. Michael Scott, a former Progressive Labour Party attorney-general and senator who retired from f...

The Court of Appeal has rejected a claim that a Supreme Court judge may have appeared to be biased against a former Progressive Labour Party MP and minister because of an earlier corruption investigation. Michael Scott had called for two rulings by P...

Michael Scott, the veteran MP and former senator, said he will use his role as chairman of the Law Reform Commission to help stamp out discrimination as he announced his retirement from frontline politics. Mr Scott in 2016 voted against the Matrimo...

By all indications, when the Dunkley administration decided to gamble with $165 million in taxpayer’s money, they knew that the Morgan’s Point project was on shaky financial footing. That begs the question; why take such a risky, high-stakes gamble w...

Prosecutors have dropped proceedings against a man accused of threatening to kill someone in a message to a government MP. The news came after Perry Smith was earlier charged in a case that related to Michael Scott, the elected member for Sandys Nor...

As the One Bermuda Alliance continues to strive for relevance, we see their continued attempts to try to create an issue through which they may be able to divide Bermudians, we are equally concerned regarding the fall in retail sales. This phenomenon...

A 55-year-old man charged with threatening to kill a government MP was freed on $10,000 bail yesterday. Perry Smith, from Sandys, was charged in Magistrates’ Court with two counts of making written threats to kill Michael Scott, MP for Sandys North,...

A former attorney-general and government MP has lost an attempt to stop a bank from seizing a piece of land after he defaulted on a $315,000 mortgage. The Supreme Court heard that Michael Scott, Progressive Labour Party MP for Sandys North, signed an...

The post of Director of Public Prosecutions should be passed on to a Bermudian, Shadow Attorney-General Michael Scott said last night. Speaking after Government House’s announcement that notice had been received from Rory Field, the present DPP and a...

Bermuda’s politicians are, rightly, being upbraided in some quarters for elevating magical thinking to the status of guiding philosophical principle. Wishing something to happen and actually making it happen are very different things. One involves w...

The Progressive Labour Party has called on Attorney General Trevor Moniz to resign, accusing him of misleading the House of Assembly regarding controversial criminal justice legislation. However Mr Moniz has responded that the PLP have been “mischiev...