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Covid-19 has exposed the extent of poverty on the island, frontline workers have claimed. Rachel Dill, the director of client services at the Coalition for the Protection of Children, said even two-parent families with full-time jobs had been forced ...

The Progressive Labour Party was accused of “stunning hypocrisy” yesterday for its barrage of abuse of the airport terminal development. The attack by Douglas DeCouto of the One Bermuda Alliance brought a sharp response from the PLP, which criticised...

Up to 75 uniformed services jobs are under threat from cutbacks, the One Bermuda Alliance claimed yesterday. Ben Smith, the shadow national security minister in the last government, said personnel in the police, prison and fire services had predicted...

A string of promises to boost the economy and cut the island’s cost of living were unveiled last night in the Progressive Labour Party’s election platform. The manifesto included a Bermuda National Digital Bank to cut mortgage costs and jump-start th...

Progressive Labour Party candidates have pledged the party “will implement the living wage” to benefit the island’s young workers, if the PLP retains power after the October 1 General Election. Jason Hayward, the labour minister, spotlighted the part...

The Progressive Labour Party’s attempt to hold a debate between party leaders “who can form a government” was dismissed yesterday as an attempt to sideline a political challenge from the new Free Democratic Movement. The PLP said that the party would...

The first day of advance polling in the General Election went ahead yesterday at four locations around the island. Tenia Woolridge, the Parliamentary Registrar, said that 1,538 votes were cast. She thanked voters who followed social-media posts or vi...

The Progressive Labour Party’s traditional grip on the West End could be under threat at the General Election on October 1, according to a source within the PLP. The freshly unveiled third party, the Free Democratic Movement, is led by former PLP lea...

It sprang as a new voice in Bermuda politics, including a group of six defectors from the United Bermuda Party. In November 2009, the Bermuda Democratic Alliance promised jaded voters “a better way”. In the end, it joined forces with UBP remnants as ...

Controversy over absentee ballots for voters overseas flared up again this week after the One Bermuda Alliance criticised the Progressive Labour Party for a failure to fast-track the electoral change. But the PLP highlighted other reforms it had intr...