7343 results returned for search: "" category ("Politics" AND "News")
A key member and former treasurer and chairman of the Progressive Labour Party has died at 82.
Walter Byron was fondly remembered yesterday by Alex Scott, who served as premier for the PLP from 2003 to 2006, as “an unsung hero, the type of individual...
DATE: Jan 08, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
The ruling Progressive Labour Party’s central committee held a lengthy meeting last night at Bermuda Industrial Union headquarters, with the party’s executive expected to outline its decisions in calling for the ousting of Damon Wade as party chairma...
DATE: Jan 07, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A member of the Progressive Labour Party executive has resigned.
Tarik Bean-Darrell, an assistant party organiser for the western constituencies, is said to have stepped down because of health issues.
It comes as the PLP prepares to hold an emergenc...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
The Progressive Labour Party’s chairman faced calls to resign yesterday after he claimed he was owed a place in a “friends and family policy”.
Damon Wade said in an audio recording that “incompetence, arrogance and vindictiveness” had been deployed a...
DATE: Dec 24, 2019
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
Job satisfaction among the working population appears to have increased over the past year, the Minister for the Cabinet Office said yesterday
Wayne Furbert revealed that underemployment dropped by more than 10 per cent between May 2018 and May 2019,...
DATE: Dec 20, 2019
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Minister of Legal Affairs, issued an advisory about the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing faced by international jurisdictions.
• To read Kathy Lynn Simmons’s statement in full, click on the PDF under “Related...
DATE: Dec 19, 2019
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Government and Opposition have clashed over the management of the economy.
Michael Dunkley, an opposition backbencher, told the House the Progressive Labour Party had done little to help struggling businesses since its election in July 2017.
Howe...
DATE: Dec 18, 2019
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Officials investigating child abuse allegations have faced obstruction from staff at schools, the House of Assembly heard.
Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, tabled legislation making failure to comply with orders from the director of the Department...
DATE: Dec 16, 2019
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
Pensions legislation that got turned away from the House of Assembly after the Opposition faulted its wording was approved on Friday after a redraft.
The Bill, brought to the House last month by Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, all...
DATE: Dec 16, 2019
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Consolidated Fund financial statements for the year ended March 31 were tabled in the House of Assembly Friday.
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told MPs that the fund had been given an unqualified audit opinion.
He added that items that ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2019
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|