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Progressive Labour Party

Letters to the Editor

"Fool me once ..."

December 8, 2012 Dear Sir, The leaked Markham report may not have been written at the behest of the Progressive Labour Party, but much of it is certainly about the PLP. It details a long list of propaganda tactics that it alleges were and are being u...
Dec 13, 2012
Editorials

"The PLP's platform"

The Progressive Labour Party platform released last week is, at first glance, an impressively thick document weighing in at some 40 pages, and covering everything from the economy to youth issues. The theme of the document, with a collage of the fac...
Dec 10, 2012
Opinion Writer

"Bermuda does not need anti-business rhetoric"

I feel obligated to respond to PLP candidate Vince Ingham’s claim (at the Victor Scott Primary PLP meeting on December 5) that the business community in Bermuda ‘have no social conscience and they are acting for their own interests’. This is an irres...
Dec 10, 2012
Letters to the Editor

"What will the OBA cut?"

December 2, 2012 Dear Sir, The 2012 Presidential election in the United States is still fresh in the mind of all of us. During the campaign, Mitt Romney, the Republican Party Presidential candidate, wasted no time as he criss-crossed the country to h...
Dec 10, 2012
Letters to the Editor

"Show me the money"

February 5, 2012 Dear Sir, Senator Vince Ingham says businesses are sitting on a big pile of money. As a businessman, I would sure appreciate it if he could get some for me so I can pay my staff, payroll tax, health insurance and all of the other obl...
Dec 08, 2012
Politics

"Blakeney: PLP is pro-business"

The governing party insisted yesterday that it was “pro-business” and rejected a suggestion that it was reframing the election as “business vs the people”. But Families Minister Glenn Blakeney, the incumbent for Devonshire North Central, said that so...
Dec 08, 2012
Politics

"PLP says it has the experience"

Job creation is the top priority for the Progressive Labour Party should it win power for a fourth consecutive term, Premier Paula Cox said yesterday. Ms Cox launched her party’s election manifesto called “Moving Forward Together” at Alaska Hall yest...
Dec 07, 2012
Politics

"PLP supporters urged to vote"

Get out and vote that was the recurring theme at a Progressive Labour Party rally last night. Described in a promotional email sent by Deputy Leader Derrick Burgess as “our BIG rally,” there was plenty of food, free PLP T-shirts and other memorabilia...
Dec 07, 2012
Politics

"A Master’s degree, a mortgage and no income"

Michelle Wainwright tried to do everything right. She worked hard for 12 years in a Government social services job. She holds a mortgage so she and her family can have a piece of the rock. Feeling the need for further qualifications to advance in her...
Dec 07, 2012
Politics

"Businesses hit back at Ingham"

Business leaders have taken exception to being painted as self-interested and lacking a social conscience by former Belco CEO Vince Ingham at a political rally. Senator Ingham, the Progressive Labour Party’s candidate for Pembroke West, took the busi...
Dec 07, 2012
Politics

"PLP candidates feel heat from Pembroke supporters"

Progressive Labour Party candidates felt the heat from their own supporters last night as Bermuda's unemployment crisis took centre stage at a town-hall meeting. *Editor's Note: this story has been corrected to note that Michelle Wainwright is a gran...
Dec 06, 2012
Politics

"PLP expected to release platform today"

With a rally in the east end, home to critical marginal constituencies, planned for this evening, and a late morning press conference led by Premier Paula Cox, the Progressive Labour Party is expected to release its election manifesto today. Premier...
Dec 06, 2012
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