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Progressive Labour Party MPs have called on Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, to resign after five days of protests against proposed immigration reforms. During a heated Motion to Adjourn that ran until almost 6am yesterday, MPs crossed swo...

Public meetings about the St George’s hotel project will be held this year, according to the Bermuda Government. Responding to questions by Progressive Labour Party backbencher Zane DeSilva, Grant Gibbons, the Acting Minister of Tourism, told the Hou...

Senate president Carol Ann Bassett has called for unifying talks between blacks and whites to heal Bermuda’s racial tensions. Drawing on her family’s personal experiences of racism, Ms Bassett delivered an impassioned speech to the Upper House, decla...

A handful of protesters has continued demonstrations at the House of Assembly today. Eighteen people, with tape over their mouths and holding placards, stood at the entrance to Sessions House urging the Bermuda Government to withdraw the Pathways to ...

The controversial Pathways to Status immigration legislation was formally withdrawn from the House of Assembly yesterday after five days of protests. Sylvan Richards, the Junior Minister for Home Affairs, made the move shortly after the session began...

Michael Fahy has issued an apology for the way the Bermuda Government has handled the Pathways to Status Bill. Speaking as the Senate opened its Budget debate today, Senator Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, conceded he had misunderstood the level ...

Words almost fail me, Mr Editor, so I won’t be so long this week. So much has already been said; too much in some cases, and so much of it nasty, ugly and unhelpful, and, sadly, said by some who hide behind the cloak of anonymity. Shame on them. So I...

Government should listen to the people. That’s what we’ve been hearing from protesters in the grounds of the House of Assembly this week and they are, of course, right. That is the whole purpose of our democratic system: that the electorate can insta...

Protesters shut down the House of Assembly with a nine-hour blockade yesterday, preventing MPs from debating the controversial Pathways to Status Bill. Hundreds of campaigners linked arms to form a human barrier to stop MPs entering the Parliament bu...

Responding to yesterday’s immigration reform protest at Sessions House, the Premier has called the Bermuda Government’s proposed legislation “a step for the long-term economic health of the Bermudian people”.The rally of 1,500 people saw MPs prevente...

Yesterday presented yet another sign that Bermuda is hurtling uncontrollably towards a status that is not of the First World variety that we often claim to possess. It did not require a high-priced sleuth to figure out that Chris Furbert and the Reve...

A group of demonstrators has begun to gather outside the House of Assembly for a third day of protest. By about 9am, an estimated 200 to 300 had gathered around the House; yesterday’s protest drew more than a thousand protesters. It comes after nine ...