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Court Street area businesses yesterday backed a plan by the Premier to introduce more co-operatives. Preston Ephraim, owner of OM Juicery, said extra support for entrepreneurs from co-op financial institutions and co-op stores would be good for the e...

Co-operative banks and supermarkets will empower Bermudians to challenge the island’s status quo, David Burt said last night. Speaking at the opening night of the Progressive Labour Party’s delegates conference, the Premier said entrepreneurs could s...

A clash over the choice of a by-election candidate appears to have taken place between a Progressive Labour Party constituency and the Premier, according to an e-mail circulated yesterday. The apparent stand-off came after Jason Hayward, a PLP senato...

The Government’s decision not to hold an Opening of Parliament ceremony is a dangerous sign of how lightly the present administration regards the customs and mores that underpin Bermuda’s democracy. There is no legal requirement to hold a formal Ope...

Dear Sir, I would like to congratulate Vic Ball on his brilliant opinion article in The Royal Gazette on October 14. Frankly, I had to read the article over twice, as I felt I must have misunderstood what he wrote. I am delighted that the Progressiv...

The Opposition leader claimed last night it was “extremely concerning” that the Government appeared too broke to host a Throne Speech event. Craig Cannonier, the One Bermuda Alliance leader, was speaking after Jamahl Simmons, the Minister without Por...

A former Progressive Labour Party premier has raised concerns about the Government’s decision to drop the Throne Speech and announce its plans at a party conference. Alex Scott said yesterday that the two events were distinct and there was no pressin...

The president of Howard University in Washington will deliver the keynote speech at the Progressive Labour Party gala next month. Wayne Frederick, a surgeon who has researched health disparities that affect African-Americans and other minorities, wil...

Walton Brown’s unswerving commitment to Bermudian independence brought a touch of humour to the sorrow of his loss. David Burt, the Premier, and former Progressive Labour Party minister and longstanding friend of Mr Brown’s Dale Butler told the congr...

Hundreds of mourners packed the Anglican Cathedral to bid farewell yesterday to MP and former government minister Walton Brown. The standing room-only congregation at the Hamilton church heard that Mr Brown combined a fierce commitment to social just...

With Walton Brown’s death, the Progressive Labour Party has lost one of its more thoughtful and cerebral leaders, and is the poorer for it. Mr Brown, who was just 59 at the time of his passing, was destined to be involved in politics from an early a...

The Progressive Labour Party government recently passed three Acts in the House and Senate that allow for increased investment in our Economic Empowerment Zones in Somerset, St George’s and North East Hamilton. The three Acts are the Economic Develop...