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Veteran political figures have faulted the leadership of both parties for electoral disillusionment exposed this week in a poll by The Royal Gazette. Disgruntled voters from “right across the spectrum” regularly voice dissatisfaction to a lunch group...

The One Bermuda Alliance and Progressive Labour Party are both unfit to lead the country because of their infighting, according to a poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette. All four of Bermuda’s leading politicians were also widely chastised for thei...

Public indignation over the $38,000 bill to send three Bermuda Government officials to last month’s Olympic Games was “well-founded”, Michael Dunkley has conceded. However, the Premier defended the One Bermuda Alliance’s overall travel budget and hig...

Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has admitted attending the Olympic Games in Brazil last month, raising the Bermuda Government’s expenditure on the event to nearly $38,000. The Paget West MP said that her $6,312.09 in expenses for the trip, which were not lis...

Sports minister Sylvan Richards and his permanent secretary Wayne Carey flew business-class to Brazil to attend last month’s Olympic Games, a spokeswoman has said. The Royal Gazette contacted the Ministry of Social Development and Sports after deta...

The One Bermuda Alliance is clinging on to a one-point lead over the Progressive Labour Party — with both receiving a thumbs down for their performance. The OBA has a 38-37 advantage on the PLP in a poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette this month, ...

Sylvan Richards’ trip to the Rio Olympics cost the taxpayer a little over $31,000, it has been revealed. Details of the sports minister’s nine-day trip to Brazil to represent the Government at the Olympic Games were posted on the One Bermuda Alliance...

A proposed levy dubbed the general services tax will not come into effect for the next fiscal year starting April 2017, according to Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance. While he was not prepared to divulge new details on the 5 per cent charge put ...

Independence from Britain might be feasible, should the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union jeopardise Bermuda’s business interests, said finance minister Bob Richards. “We still don’t know which way is up,” Mr Richards cautioned of Brexit — the ...

Cabinet is looking at a range of options put forward by a government steering committee to establish a secure forensic psychiatric unit in Bermuda. Senator Jeff Baron revealed that the committee had been tasked with devising a business case for both ...