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The Progressive Labour Party last night made history -- and ended 30 years of UBP rule with a crushing 26-14 landslide and 54 percent of the national vote. A wave of emotion swamped the UBP's strategy of stressing the economy and the fragility of the...

New Health and Social Services Minister Nelson Bascome is set to quit his job as an addiction director at a charity to avoid a conflict of interest, The Royal Gazette can reveal. And he signalled that his decision heralded a major shake-up in the tre...

United Bermuda Party. Ms Gordon -- on holiday in the US -- was asked by phone if she would continue to lead her party after the UBP caucus backed her. And Party chairman Ronnie Viera said: "Many United Bermuda Party MPs, candidates and supporters are...

set-up -- but not yet. And she signalled changes in personnel on Government Boards as well. Ms Smith said her Cabinet was a stopgap measure set up under the system inherited from the former UBP Government. Ms Smith said: "This in no way means that we...

first PLP Premier and the first woman leader to win a General Election in Bermuda. And she said after being sworn in by Governor Thorold Masefield at Government House: "It's with a great deal of awe that I assume this position in front of my mother, ...

the Opposition. And the party which was booted from power in a landslide General Election is united in its wish for ex-Premier Pamela Gordon to stay at the helm. Ms Gordon formally quit as Premier in a brief meeting with Governor Thorold Masefield on...

A front-page story in yesterday's paper incorrectly reported that Labour and Home Affairs Minister Paula Cox never held a Shadow Ministry. Ms Cox was Shadow Community and Cultural Affairs Minister. The PLP's first Cabinet has taken charge -- with a f...

The Progressive Labour Party last night made history -- and ended 30 years of UBP rule with a crushing 26-14 landslide and 54 percent of the national vote. A wave of emotion swamped the UBP's strategy of stressing the economy and the fragility of the...

Today's election has few certainties -- except that Bermuda will have a black woman Premier-designate by the end of the day. The election race is set to be even closer than the 1993 clash, which saw the United Bermuda Party triumph over the Progressi...

Business chiefs last night slammed Shadow Home Affairs and Public Safety Minister Alex Scott's claims that Government and Island business was "too close'' to organised crime. And top figures from the business world closed ranks and warned Mr. Scott's...