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With the General Election imminent on Tuesday, the Parliamentary Registrar today issued a reminder to employers for eligible staff to be given sufficient time off work to cast their ballots. The law covers registered voters in accordance with section...

A piece of the women’s suffrage movement in Bermuda is set to go under the hammer to support the Bermuda National Trust. The Trust’s annual Auction and Jumble Sale will feature a table from the collection of Gladys Morrell that played a role in givin...

A youth group will hold a town hall meeting later this month to look at the issue of voting and the right to vote in Bermuda. Generation Next will draft a Bill proposing automatic voter registration when men and women turn 18 and then present their p...

Earlier this month, in a boardroom at the Parliamentary Registry on Wesley Street in Hamilton, a group of local politicians and two overseas visitors sat poring over a large map of Bermuda, discussing how best to divide this tiny island into constitu...

The number of registered voters has risen by almost six per cent in the past six years, with 2,388 more people on the electoral roll now than in June 2010. Parliamentary registrar Tenia Woolridge told The Royal Gazette there were 41,355 Bermudians re...

Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Bermudians, I present for your viewing a timeline of the One Bermuda Alliance’s immigration moves over the past 18 months. • October 1, 2014: Michael Fahy proposed a new work permit policy that included the highly controv...

The Progressive Labour Party has queried how the island’s newly registered voters went up 50 per cent more in this fiscal year than the forecast figure — with a target of 2,000 new voters for 2016-17. Marc Bean, the Opposition Leader, declared himsel...

After having read the story carried by The Royal Gazette on Saturday that highlighted the more salient aspects of the recent debate as it unfolded in the House of Assembly, I decided to convey the following. That news report which ran under the head...

“There is no place like home.” — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz Forrest Gump once said: “Life is like a box of chocolates ...” A possible interpretation is that one has an opportunity to make choices as to what they wish to taste, consume and subseque...

Dear Sir, Here is a simple question for 2016. If the British, Americans and Filipinos living abroad can vote, why can’t Bermudians? Canadians retain the right to vote from overseas, although under stricter guidelines — if you have lived outside of ...

“I’m not voting.” “I have never voted.” “All politicians are the same.” Statements made frequently. At first listen, I wonder why anyone would even have this rationale? Then I remember that many in my generation had this very same attitude at one po...

Absentee balloting, fixed-term elections and the right of voters to recall MPs are still in the works, despite a long silence from Government on political reform. The measures were part of the One Bermuda Alliance election platform, and a governance ...