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The campaign for equality over sexual orientation made great strides in the past decade as Bermuda celebrated its first gay marriage and a Pride parade attracted thousands of marchers. However, the low numbers prepared to vote in favour of same-sex m...

It had been billed as a tight battle, but the Progressive Labour Party soared to its greatest landslide General Election victory on July 18, 2017. The PLP secured 24 seats against 12 for the One Bermuda Alliance, with 59 per cent of the popular vote,...

A team of university researchers are to use a high-tech laser scanner to map Bermuda’s oldest church, in partnership with the Bermuda National Trust. Brent Fortenberry, an archaeologist from Texas A&M University, will use the technology to create a t...

It gave Bermuda’s economy an estimated $300 million boost and put the island on the global stage as it hosted the greatest sailing contest on earth. Yet the America’s Cup ended up being anything but the silver bullet that could prolong the One Bermud...

The United Bermuda Party had been a mainstay of Bermuda’s political scene for 47 years when it finally disappeared in early 2011. Yet, even though the UBP had ruled the island for 34 of those years — winning eight straight General Elections between 1...

Ewart Brown was never likely to ride off quietly into the sunset when he stepped down as premier in November 2010. With a long-running police investigation involving raids on his clinics, a major lawsuit in America, numerous fiery speeches, a controv...

Bermuda was rocked by the shock death of one of its pivotal political figures in July 2017. Shawn Crockwell, the 47- year-old former One Bermuda Alliance tourism minister who became an independent MP in 2016, was found dead in his Hamilton Parish hom...

A grande dame of the East End has died less than two weeks before her 104th birthday. Her granddaughter, Renée Ming, the Progressive Labour Party MP for St George’s North, said Ismay Steede, who died on New Year’s Day, was “a true matriarch”. Ms Ming...

It was a decade of five premiers, seven Opposition leaders, two explosive General Elections, numerous angry demonstrations, never-ending accusations of corruption and House of Assembly spats and the death of two political parties. But for all the dra...

A string of gun incidents in North East Hamilton over recent months, including two this week, have “caused concern”, the Bermuda Police Service said yesterday. Acting Detective Inspector Jason Smith highlighted that two firearms incidents had been r...