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MP Renee Webb last night declared the leadership of the country's two political parties the "weakest I have ever seen" after her bill to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation was thrown out of the House of Assembly. The Government backben...

Hundreds of hospital workers are to get a four percent pay rise after a deal brokered by union chiefs was formally signed yesterday morning. The raise will be backdated from last October for about 400 trade and auxiliary staff at the King Edward VII ...

Government plans to throw out a parliamentary motion urging it to consider establishing a Truth and Reconciliation Commission based on the one set up in South Africa after the end of apartheid. Community Affairs Minister Dale Butler told The Royal Ga...

The Education Minister has defended a decision not to renew the contract of an uncertified teacher working in two public primary schools. Terry Lister said the Ministry of Education had already bent the rules for Bim Bademosi, a music teacher at Sout...

A sea burial which resulted in the body of a mother-of-four being washed ashore was carried out correctly, says Government?s Chief Medical Officer. Dr. John Cann said that although he could not clarify how or why Deborah Elizabeth Santucci Smith?s bo...

The body of a mother-of-four who was buried at sea at the weekend was found washed ashore on a private hotel beach yesterday lunchtime. Deborah Elizabeth Santucci Smith was discovered by a female guest in the sand at The Reefs resort in Southampton, ...

Government Minister Dale Butler claims he has been offered a future Cabinet position by Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert. The Community Affairs and Sports Minister told that Mr. Furbert approached him recently and asked: ?If we are one short, what do ...

A Government Minister has denounced a fellow Cabinet member for using the phrase ?house niggers? on his radio show. Community Affairs Minister Dale Butler said he was ?ashamed? that the word nigger was ?part of the black vocabulary? and wished that k...

When Cheryl Pooley-Alves was approached by to talk about her experiences within the Progressive Labour Party, she initially declined. The 45-year-old, white mother-of-two was looking for a job and didn?t want her past political persuasions to jeopard...

In February 1978, an aspiring young politician lost his job as an estate agent after switching from the United Bermuda Party to the Progressive Labour Party. Alex Outerbridge, then 29, was white and his employer, John Chiappa, of Dorchester Realty, t...