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Less than 18 months after it was formed, the One Bermuda Alliance is now the Government.
The movement from new party, bringing together members of the United Bermuda Party, the Bermuda Democratic Alliance, former Progressive Labour Party supporters ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2012
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It's hard not to be sceptical about the announcement yesterday that Government is considering building a pier on the north shore of St George's to accommodate cruise ships.
First, there's the timing. Transport Minister Walter Roban said he would have...
DATE: Dec 15, 2012
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The polls published by The Royal Gazette yesterday and today show the One Bermuda Alliance leading the Progressive Labour Party by 13 percentage points.
Despite that strong lead, it is very difficult to predict a winner of this election. What the pol...
DATE: Dec 14, 2012
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Some members of the large field of Independent candidates running in this general election have promoted the idea that voters should support Independents in general, presumably as a protest against the party system. It does not make much sense otherw...
DATE: Dec 13, 2012
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Five years ago, the Progressive Labour Party spent a good deal of effort dismissing the United Bermuda Party’s warnings that crime was getting worse.
The PLP’s spin doctors trawled through the records in search of a year under a UBP government when ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2012
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There are some similarities between the One Bermuda Alliance’s economic recovery plan and the Progressive Labour Party’s platform, both of which were released last week.
Both recognise the need to ease some immigration requirement to attract business...
DATE: Dec 11, 2012
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The Progressive Labour Party platform released last week is, at first glance, an impressively thick document weighing in at some 40 pages, and covering everything from the economy to youth issues.
The theme of the document, with a collage of the fac...
DATE: Dec 10, 2012
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Bermuda is commonly referred to as being in a recession. But at this stage it is probably more accurate to describe it as a depression.
The technical definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of reduction of gross domestic product. Bermud...
DATE: Dec 04, 2012
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One of the most important recommendations to be adopted out of the Hopkins Report on education was the implementation of an internationally recognised examination for Bermuda’s students.
Prior to this, public schools were limited to Bermuda exams, w...
DATE: Dec 03, 2012
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Makai Dickerson can certainly attest to the axiom that a week is a long time in politics.
Seven days ago, he was a rising star in the Progressive Labour Party, picked to take a run at the leader of the Opposition, One Bermuda Alliance.
Now he is no ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2012
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