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Dear Sir, I have this concern about the mind-controlling power that pollsters have in their hands for getting into our minds and how they use information to manipulate and handle us, the Bermudian public. Especially those foreign pollsters who are br...

An attempt to introduce domestic partnerships for gay couples is marriage by another name, pressure group Preserve Marriage said last night. The organisation claimed that Minister of Home Affairs Walton Brown’s Bill to create legal recognition for sa...

Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, shrugged off criticism yesterday as he tabled a Bill to give gay couples a watered-down option of “domestic partnerships” instead of marriage. Mr Brown, who said the Domestic Partnerships Bill would be deba...

A gay rights group has backed a human rights watchdog’s view of the controversial Domestic Partnership Act as a backward step. The Rainbow Alliance of Bermuda said it agreed with the Human Rights Commission that the proposed legislation created a “wa...

This is in response to E. McNeil Stovell’s Letter to the Editor on November 20, 2017, headlined “Gay people deserve rights but marriage is for men and women”. First, I would like to thank Mr Stovell for the respectful tone in which he wrote his lette...

A human rights watchdog is warning that the passage of the Domestic Partnership Act will remove rights from same-sex couples and potentially make their unions unrecognisable overseas. In a statement released this morning, the Human Rights Commission...

Dear Sir, It has been a long while since I wrote a Letter to the Editor, but recent events in Bermuda have compelled me to come out of my hibernation. For the life of me, I cannot fathom why Bermuda, and in particular the Progressive Labour Party, se...

Gays are three times more likely to suffer with addiction problems according to the Reverend Joe Amico, a leading specialist who believes the LGBTQ community in Bermuda is not helped by a lack of facilities to deal with the problem. “There are virtua...

New legislation that would replace same-sex marriage with a domestic partnership arrangement has been unveiled by the Bermuda Government. Yesterday, in a statement, Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, said he was seeking the public’s feedback...

Junior Minister of Finance Wayne Furbert has refused to say when he will retable his Parliamentary Bill to outlaw same-sex marriage. It is the second time Mr Furbert has dodged questions on the status of his Private Member’s Bill. Mr Furbert said sho...

Gary Simons, the deputy chairman of Preserve Marriage Bermuda, has resigned from his position at the group that has campaigned against same-sex marriage for the past two years. Prominent in the group since December 2015, Mr Simons declared a month la...

There are some parts of the Republican coalition who feel like they have not received what they expected from the presidency of Donald Trump. Those who are opposed to gay rights, however, have little to complain about. Here is the latest: “In a major...