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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...

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...

An investigation into Bermuda’s history of “land grabs” has taken a step closer with confirmation from the Government yesterday that a group of people were asked to form a Commission of Inquiry. It came after a social justice advocate said the offici...

Dear Sir, I have watched with increasing anxiety the rising costs of living in Bermuda as a result of the polices implemented by the PLP and how they will affect us. What I have yet to see, however, is a potential breakdown of the costs that directly...

Jonathan Bell Tributes were paid yesterday to Walton Brown, a Progressive Labour Party MP who died at 59, with former premier Ewart Brown saying he had lost “a cousin and a political comrade”. Dr Brown added: “Bermuda has lost a visionary who wanted ...

Walton Brown Jr, a government backbencher, former minister and longstanding member of the Progressive Labour Party, has died at the age of 59. An activist, political observer and staunch advocate for Bermudian independence, Mr Brown, who represented ...

Sitting relaxed behind my computer, I was abruptly but pleasantly interrupted by a telephone caller who was listening to the Premier, David Burt, on the Sherry J talk show. To paraphrase the comments, when the Premier was asked what he was doing to s...