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A new portfolio will address Bermuda’s ageing and increasingly chronically diseased population, the new Junior Minister for Disability Tineé Furbert said yesterday. Ms Furbert was speaking after Senators Crystal Caesar, Vance Campbell and Jason Haywa...

Better education and narrowing income inequality are the keys to solving gang violence, the new Minister of National Security said yesterday. Wayne Caines said: “Violence and antisocial behaviour must be addressed. Strong enforcement is a part of the...

Social activist Eva Hodgson has urged the Government to improve the plight of black Bermudians by “deliberately, consciously and publicly” tackling the island’s economic racial disparity. Dr Hodgson, who frequently accused the previous Progressive La...

It really wasn’t so much a tale of “Two Bermudas”, to borrow one of the Progressive Labour Party’s political slogans. Rather the story of the 2017 Bermuda election was, in large measure, a tale of two radically different approaches to election campa...

Premier David Burt yesterday expressed his condolences to the family of late party stalwart Deborah Tannock. Mr Burt described Mrs Tannock, the wife of former senator Raymond Tannock, as an important member of the party’s fundraising committee. “Mrs ...

A young campaign team helped to propel the Progressive Labour Party to a landslide General Election victory last week with the simple philosophy that communication is a two-way street. From using social media to interact with voters instead of merely...

Dear Sir, The following poem is submitted in recognition of the contributions of Bob Richards as Minister of Finance and Deputy Premier. Bermuda Stone Durable, valuable, and increasingly rare material in our society You protected these shores agains...

Dear Sir, A harsh awakening, and sadly no time now to balance the budget of a brilliant finance minister, Bob Richards, and a fine premier, Michael Dunkley, and his ministers to guide them through a minefield of mismanagement and ignorance that was l...

Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, sworn in yesterday as the Leader of the Opposition, also announced her Shadow Cabinet and a Senate team from which Michael Fahy was notably absent. Mr Fahy, whose immigration policies were widely perceived as a liability when...

The One Bermuda Alliance was weighed in the balance on July 18 and found wanting, particularly by the broad centre of the electorate. In any parliamentary democracy, governments are formed from the centre, not the fringes. If an incumbent administrat...

Dear Sir, Your opinion piece today (The Royal Gazette, July 25) was 20/20 hindsight; it is very easy now to lambast the One Bermuda Alliance for its Pathways to Status initiative. If I remember correctly, it released a document with the intention of ...

The Progressive Labour Party government is meeting with union leaders and international business representatives as it unveils specifics of its 100-day plan in stages over the days and weeks ahead, David Burt announced yesterday afternoon. Speaking s...