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The Progressive Labour Party’s three years back in government under David Burt’s leadership came with a trial by fire, with a pandemic thwarting some of its goals. The Premier’s B-plus assessment of his administration this week came with the acknowle...

Dear Sir, Your editorial today (July 27, 2020) was spot-on. Bermuda’s squandering of the America’s Cup legacy was the biggest lost opportunity for probably the past half-century. History will judge the Progressive Labour Party government harshly on t...

See if you can spot the link between the following three vignettes. Ready? (Hint: it’s the economy). First there was Sage How did you spend your weekend? Me? I blew the dust off the Sage Report — well, only the executive Summary, if truth be told. ...

“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.” — Unknown Bermuda, we are three years into the landslide Progressive Labour Party victory to run our governmen...

Cabinet appointments to the national security and tourism and transport portfolios will go ahead today. The replacements for Wayne Caines and Zane DeSilva, who both quit Cabinet last week over a public breach of Covid-19 health restrictions, were exp...

An Opposition senator appealed yesterday to the public to lobby MPs over the Government’s plan to do away with the corporations of Hamilton and St George. Dwayne Robinson, of the One Bermuda Alliance, highlighted that legislation to abolish the munic...

The One Bermuda Alliance pledged to support the fight for social justice yesterday in the wake of the death of a black American at the hands of police officers. Craig Cannonier, the Opposition leader, said the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Mi...

The officers and members of the Progressive Labour Party are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of one of Bermuda’s most prolific warriors in the fight for civil rights and racial equality, the indomitable Eva Naomi Hodgson, PhD, OBE. Dr Hodgson ...

It is often said that a prophet has no honour in his own country. So it can be said of Eva Hodgson. Although we met and talked on occasion, I did not know Dr Hodgson well. The last time I saw her was in July 2018 at the Bermuda Industrial Union head...

Residents have been invited to join a virtual round table talk hosted by the Progressive Labour Party’s Women’s Caucus. Panel members will discuss the “new normal in the face of Covid-19”. Topics are expected to include domestic violence and striking...

The Leader of the Opposition today backed a call for people to support the island’s economy through the Covid-19 pandemic. Craig Cannonier said this morning that, in addition to the health threat posed by the coronavirus, Bermuda faced an economic cr...

Stanley Lowe, the former Speaker of the House of Assembly, has died. He was 82. Mr Lowe was a Progressive Labour Party MP for Southampton East for 44 years, after being elected as a member of the “Class of ’68” which marked the beginning of the moder...