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The single protester who refused to accept a confidential government payout to people pepper sprayed outside Parliament five years ago today still wants his day in court. Craig Looby insists police used excessive force during a clash with demonstrato...

As he watched from the balcony of the House of Assembly, Sylvan Richards knew that what he was witnessing marked the end of the OBA as a government. Mr Richards, who made it into the House just ahead of protesters blockading the gates, said he knew “...

Politics played a role in the Progressive Labour Party’s targeting of the One Bermuda Alliance’s airport development – but former MP Michael Scott insisted the project was foremost “an inherently bad deal for the country”. The former PLP Attorney-Gen...

Reporter Sarah Lagan covered the December 2 protest for The Royal Gazette. Five years later, she looks back on the chaotic and frightening events of that day. Chaotic, frightening and heartbreaking are just a few words that sum up the events of...

Deborah Brown, mother of OBA MP Nandi Outerbridge: “I saw the protesters standing in the front lines shoving Nandi in the chest with their hands and arms … They were shoving her and preventing her from walking through the crowd and towards the ga...

Politics irrevocably tainted a review of the events of December 2, 2016 – such that two One Bermuda Alliance senators involved saw no point in attempting a report of their own. “At some, what are you going to gain?” asked Ben Smith, who with Marcus J...

The Premier’s repeated predictions that Bermuda’s first casino would open before the end of the year are to fall flat. David Burt, with just one month to the deadline, will not achieve his “dream and expectation” and see gambling at the St Regis Hote...

One Bermuda Alliance leader Cole Simons has admitted his party made mistakes in power as he accused the Government of being obsessed with the political blame game. Mr Simons hit back at David Burt, the Premier, after he launched a string of attacks o...

Claims the Government would have cut the same controversial airport redevelopment deal it attacked the One Bermuda Alliance for signing were dismissed by the Premier. David Burt spoke out after the Reverend Nicholas Tweed, a pastor and leading membe...

Tourism chiefs yesterday welcomed the easing of Covid-19 restrictions as a move that will help boost visitor numbers. The Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA) said the move represented the first significant loosening of pandemic border controls since the ...