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I had hoped never to have to write about an issue such as this episode between the Bermuda Industrial Union and the Government — in reality, about Chris Furbert and David Burt, the leaders of both groups. The stated issue of disagreement over the tra...

Union negotiators and the Government should go head-to-head until a deal is struck over union decertification votes, an Opposition MP said last night. Jarion Richardson, the shadow labour minister, said: “We recommend the negotiators enter a room, B...

A union leader has threatened the Premier with a major strike unless changes to decertification votes in workplaces are ditched. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, wrote to David Burt that a “two day shutdown” had been appr...

“...in any society, leaders who are not willing to make sacrifices aren't leaders, they're opportunists, and opportunists rarely have the common good in mind.” — Sebastian Junger, Freedom The fourth wave Around the Caribbean region, the...

The Bermuda Industrial Union indicated it may refuse to go to arbitration over a dispute with Government over bus rosters. Chris Furbert, BIU president, said yesterday that talks with Government had so far proven fruitless, and he had been told the m...

Older people will suffer most from a drawn-out bus strike, a charity leader warned yesterday. Claudette Fleming, the executive director of Age Concern, said seniors depended more on public transport than other age groups and no bus service made thei...

A campaign group allied to the Progressive Labour Party yesterday hit out at the Government and accused it of ignoring “grass roots, labour and Black Bermudians”. A letter to the party from the group Move Bermuda earlier this month accused the PLP of...

Changes to Bermuda’s immigration policy to open the door for long-term residents to become permanent residents have been backed by the Bermuda Employer’s Council. While Keith Jensen, the BEC president, said that while “the devil is in the details”, g...

A Cabinet minister is overseas receiving medical treatment, a government spokeswoman confirmed this evening. Rumours have been spreading on social media about the issue but the spokeswoman added: “There are rumours circulating that are untrue. At thi...

Plans to close West End Primary School in Sandys came under heavy fire last night at a heated town hall meeting in Somerset Cricket Club. The gathering also delivered an uncommon rebuke to the Progressive Labour Party government, from the party’s own...

Al Gore, the former Vice-President of the United States, produced a 2006 documentary called An Inconvenient Truth. In this film, he spoke about the oncoming climate change. Many, too many, did not want to hear it and labelled what he said as unpopula...

The Progressive Labour Party appeared to draw stinging criticism from one of its own in a broadside in the House of Assembly, with backbencher Jamahl Simmons decrying a “mindset” pandering to businesses and putting population growth ahead of the part...