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Finance Minister Bob Richards will read his first Budget Statement in the House of Assembly today. Plans for the next financial year, which starts on April 1, will likely include more borrowing and a new statutory debt ceiling that may be raised to j...

Veteran Progressive Labour Party MP Dennis Lister has dismissed reports that he intends to step down from the party and stand as an Independent. And the party today said he’d accepted the post of Shadow Minister for Quangos one of a list of Shadow Mi...

Debate over the termination of term limits dominated yesterday’s Senate session. Government’s leader in the Upper House, Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy, said term limits would be recognised as “a job killer for Bermuda”. Senator Fahy said he “wil...

The Progressive Labour Party took aim at a statement by Attorney General Mark Pettingill that the former government held back legislation to empower Police. Shadow Attorney General Kim Wilson said yesterday that while part five of the Police and Crim...

One Bermuda Alliance chairman Thad Hollis yesterday admonished Opposition party leader Marc Bean for referring to his party as “demonic”. Mr Bean described the governing party as the “demonic Harry Potter One Bermuda Alliance” at Sunday’s Founders Da...

Political power is not enough, lawyer Eugene Johnston told the Progressive Labour Party on Sunday. In a keynote address at the party’s Founders Day luncheon, Mr Johnston warned the party hierarchy that its base “cannot be satisfied with something as ...

Former United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan is calling for an end to what he says is the demonisation of the now defunct party he loved. The former St George’s West MP was the last leader of the UBP and fought to keep it alive before it made its fin...

Opposition Leader lays down the gauntlet to dissenters By Ayo Johnson Progressive Labour Party Leader Marc Bean says the party is “getting stronger” by the day, but warned supporters that they have to take responsibility for the future. And he denou...

Terry Lister lists grievances as he leaves PLP By Ayo Johnson Terry Lister, Sandys South representative, has resigned from the Progressive Labour Party to sit in parliament as an independent. Mr Lister — who had once declared his unflinching loyalty...

After 14 years of attempting to reform the public education system while in Government, the Opposition Progressive Labour Party is advocating that the middle school system should be dismantled altogether. And the party has charged the Government of b...