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Dear Sir, I have this concern about the mind-controlling power that pollsters have in their hands for getting into our minds and how they use information to manipulate and handle us, the Bermudian public. Especially those foreign pollsters who are br...

Proposed legislation to replace same-sex marriage with “domestic partnerships” is a compromise deal, the Minister of Home Affairs admitted last night. Walton Brown said the Domestic Partnership Bill would grant a “raft of legal benefits for same-sex ...

What has been largely if not totally overlooked in the wake of the draft consultation Bill that home affairs minister Walton Brown unveiled last week is the impact that it may have on unmarried heterosexuals. Same-sex marriage proponents are justifi...

A prominent gay rights activist predicted yesterday that Bermuda would face a backlash after the Government revealed plans to end same-sex marriage and adopt a watered-down “domestic partnerships” initiative. Celebrations planned for Friday, marking ...

New legislation that would replace same-sex marriage with a domestic partnership arrangement has been unveiled by the Bermuda Government. Yesterday, in a statement, Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, said he was seeking the public’s feedback...

Gary Simons, the deputy chairman of Preserve Marriage Bermuda, has resigned from his position at the group that has campaigned against same-sex marriage for the past two years. Prominent in the group since December 2015, Mr Simons declared a month la...

A same-sex couple who recently married on the island have expressed their joy, thanking Bermuda for giving them a positive experience. In a social media post, Bryce Whayman and Roland Maertens wrote that they were warmly welcomed, despite the often h...

The Government has been ordered to pay costs to the couple who won the right for gay people to marry in Bermuda. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons ruled that all of Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche’s legal costs should be paid in relation to their cla...

Cabinet minister Kim Wilson is representing same-sex marriage opponents in their bid to overturn a landmark ruling which allowed gay couples to marry in Bermuda. Ms Wilson, the full-time Minister of Health, is the attorney of record for a group which...

It’s a “What if ...” question that can only be speculated upon but not definitively answered, at least not yet. And it’s one that is being increasingly asked given the likely convergence in the coming months of two seemingly unrelated but rather obvi...

Preserve Marriage’s reinstatement as a charity has reignited questions over its funding, but Bermuda’s laws do not require the information to be disclosed. The group, which is against same-sex marriage and civil unions, has never revealed its financi...

A young Bermudian man who won the right for gay people to marry on the island is to meet the government MP behind a bid to have the decision reversed. Winston Godwin-DeRoche, whose successful challenge to the law in the Supreme Court led to a landmar...