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The General Election will not be dampened by the Covid-19 pandemic, said Crystal Caesar and Tinée Furbert, of the Progressive Labour Party. The pair said the PLP had demonstrated a record of bringing forward legislation to improve the lives of famili...

Ernest Peets and Curtis Richardson were unveiled as Progressive Labour Party candidates for the General Election yesterday. Dr Peets will compete in Smith’s North, where he lost to Michael Dunkley, of the One Bermuda Alliance, by 497 votes to 454 at ...

The One Bermuda Alliance claimed tax increases under the Progressive Labour Party have left Bermudians with less cash in their pockets. But the PLP defended its tax policies, which it argued aimed to address inequality and gave breaks to small busine...

A Progressive Labour Party politician who sat in the House of Assembly for almost eight years announced yesterday that he will not stand in the October 1 General Election. Rolfe Commissiong, who was the MP for Pembroke South East before Parliament wa...

The Progressive Labour Party has demanded an apology after it said that the Premier’s loyalty to Bermudians was questioned by an Opposition politician. A PLP spokeswoman said the comment was made in a video posted on the One Bermuda Alliance Facebook...

Craig Cannonier seemed angry and shell-shocked as he did a round of media last week bemoaning that the election has been called. It is the Premier’s prerogative to call an election when he sees fit, whether or not the Leader of the Opposition or any...

Education and the cost of living were among the priorities for two long-serving Progressive Labour Party members unveiled as candidates for the General Election yesterday. Anthony Richardson, 56, a senator and junior minister, and former accountant-g...

David Burt, the Premier, refused to comment yesterday on speculation that Progressive Labour Party MP Michael Scott has stepped down from politics. The Bermuda Real website reported in an opinion piece that branch sources said Mr Scott, the Sandys N...

The Progressive Labour Party yesterday highlighted a package of measures introduced to help workers and business owners weather the economic storm caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Jamahl Simmons, the chairman of the Bermuda Economic Development Corpo...

A breakaway group could form in the Progressive Labour Party if its back bench continued to grow with another landslide General Election victory, a political adviser has claimed. Phil Perinchief said that the possibility of opposition within the rank...

The Progressive Labour Party unveiled its first two candidates yesterday for October’s General Election. Crystal Caesar and Jason Wade will compete for constituencies in Southampton that the One Bermuda Alliance held with reduced margins at the 2017 ...

A long-serving Progressive Labour Party senator and MP has died, it was announced at the weekend. Calvin Smith was also the island’s first statistician and created the Government’s Department of Statistics. Mr Smith was 87. A spokeswoman for the PLP ...