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Backbenchers can earn about $240 extra a day as temporary government ministers. Two MPs have taken on the roles of Cabinet members a total of four times since last August. A government spokeswoman explained: “Primarily, this is an opportunity for our...

The under-fire chairman of the Progressive Labour Party confirmed yesterday that he will quit the post. A statement issued by the party said that Damon Wade had “announced his intention to resign as party chair” at an earlier central committee meetin...

The Progressive Labour Party MP for Warwick South East has been sworn in as the temporary Minister of Tourism and Transport. Lawrence Scott was appointed to head the ministry at Government House on Friday and will hold the post for ten days while Zan...

Bermuda had its first Commission of Inquiry for 16 years as the handling of taxpayers’ money under the Progressive Labour Party administration between 2009 and 2012 came under the spotlight. But while the 2016 commission concluded that seven governme...

What might have been the odds, at the beginning of 2010, that Bermuda would still be waiting for its first casino by the end of 2019? Given the issue’s perpetual role as a lightning rod for controversy, it was probably a long shot. Those in favour re...

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,...

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...