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In late 2019, the Government’s financial position was steadily improving. We had reduced our deficit significantly, increased our GDP growth rate, and made an $80 million payment on Private Placement Notes towards our national debt. Then, the pandemi...

The violence of December 2, 2016 is the sole reason the day’s protests endure in memory, according to a Progressive Labour Party MP. Christopher Famous was a PLP organiser when he joined demonstrators outside the House of Assembly on the morning that...

The single protester who refused to accept a confidential government payout to people pepper sprayed outside Parliament five years ago today still wants his day in court. Craig Looby insists police used excessive force during a clash with demonstrato...

As he watched from the balcony of the House of Assembly, Sylvan Richards knew that what he was witnessing marked the end of the OBA as a government. Mr Richards, who made it into the House just ahead of protesters blockading the gates, said he knew “...

Politics played a role in the Progressive Labour Party’s targeting of the One Bermuda Alliance’s airport development – but former MP Michael Scott insisted the project was foremost “an inherently bad deal for the country”. The former PLP Attorney-Gen...

Claims the Government would have cut the same controversial airport redevelopment deal it attacked the One Bermuda Alliance for signing were dismissed by the Premier. David Burt spoke out after the Reverend Nicholas Tweed, a pastor and leading membe...

We are seeing an interesting, although possibly unnecessary, tussle play out over plans for legalisation of cannabis. The recent Throne Speech references the Government’s intention to continue with its plans for legalisation of cannabis. This was pre...

More action has to be taken to tackle gang violence, the One Bermuda Alliance shadow national security minister said in parliament on Friday. Michael Dunkley, added the Government had revealed few details on how it planned to beat the scourge of gang...

Now that we have had a chance to hear the Progressive Labour Party government’s Throne Speech, we are reminded how bare its cupboard of courageous leadership and meaningful ideas really is. Right now, a number of residents on the island are in need. ...

Young people are frustrated about the availability of jobs and opportunity. They see the red tape of bureaucracy and their lack of access to capital and think that they can’t make their dreams come true. They see people working with skills they want,...

I read Khalid Wasi’s response to my op-ed entitled “Know your place” with interest and some bemusement. Typically, it contained once again his revisionist take on Bermuda’s mid to late 20th-century history for about the 500th time. Khalid, please le...

A former education Permanent Secretary yesterday questioned if she would ever face a Progressive Labour Party disciplinary committee over her opposition to the closure of a historic primary school. Ellen-Kate Horton, a veteran PLP member who was thre...