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No one would have been surprised that the Progressive Labour Party retained its seat in Constituency 26. Warwick South Central is a PLP stronghold and a prized seat that has played host to two PLP leaders, one as premier. However, the margin of victo...

Not wanting to dedicate energy towards a rumour, I have had to rely on the presumption that The Royal Gazette would not publish a front-page story without some substance behind it. Real-time events nowadays are such that they should not need to inven...

The decision by the British Supreme Court to reject the appeal by Prime Minister Theresa May to set aside the ruling that requires the Brexit vote to gain its approval from a vote in Parliament has set the British Government on its heels. We can reca...

The death of Fidel Castro, the strongman of Cuba, has drawn mixed reactions all around the world. Depending on how we view history and how we watch it unfold, Castro will be characterised as liberator or dictator. We live in the present and it is e...

Nothing defines a government more than they way it interprets the role and access to its courts. We got a great lesson on this point in the US elections where the Republicans have refused to ratify a Supreme Court justice proposed by President Barack...

Many, many years ago, a math professor often repeated a French term, which means “I am doctoring my own ignorance”. True to those words, life has been a journey of unmasking my own ignorance, sometimes referred to as naivety. For example, I thought e...

With lots of talk about the role of the electoral college in the United States and delegates in Bermuda versus direct elections, it may be useful to understand their origins. In 1796 during its beginnings, the US had a practical problem on how to cho...

Congratulations to David Burt for becoming the ninth leader of the Progressive Labour Party. The timing of his ascension is pivotal heading into a General Election in a little more than a year’s time. The country has numerous challenges such as the ...

I decided to pretend that Bermuda was like America and was heading towards its own presidential election. I have launched a campaign based on a plan with the slogan “Make Bermuda Stronger Together”. The cornerstone of my candidacy is an effort to sig...

Eva Hodgson has strenuously tried to show the damage of division in the black community caused by party politics. Over the years I have concluded a few important points about the formative years of party politics. One is that the political efforts of...