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A former Progressive Labour Party premier has raised concerns about the Government’s decision to drop the Throne Speech and announce its plans at a party conference. Alex Scott said yesterday that the two events were distinct and there was no pressin...

The president of Howard University in Washington will deliver the keynote speech at the Progressive Labour Party gala next month. Wayne Frederick, a surgeon who has researched health disparities that affect African-Americans and other minorities, wil...

A by-election for the seat held by the late Progressive Labour Party MP Walton Brown will be held on November 21. The Parliamentary Registrar confirmed that John Rankin, the Governor, had issued a writ for a by-election. Mr Brown, the MP for Pembroke...

Parliament will continue to meet until December without the traditional Convening of Legislature, David Burt announced yesterday. The Premier said the House of Assembly would meet every other week until December 13 and the Senate would do the same un...

The Mayor of St George has admitted he did not follow corporation rules after he took a controversial decision to reopen Water Street to traffic. George Dowling III spoke out yesterday after Philip Seaman, a former St George’s business ratepayers’ c...

A second councillor in St George has resigned over the leadership style of the town’s mayor. Philip Seaman, a business ratepayers’ councillor for four years, stepped down in part over a decision by George Dowling this summer to open a pedestrianised ...

An extraordinary municipal election for the Corporation of St. George to fill the seat of Business Ratepayers’ Councillor, will be held on Thursday, 21st November 2019, at Penno’s Wharf Cruise Ship Terminal in St. George. This election is only for ...

A World Heritage Centre volunteer was declared a new municipal residents’ councillor for the Corporation of St George’s today. David Chew, a construction worker who helped on projects such as the Deliverance tourist attraction, was unopposed for the ...

An extraordinary municipal election to fill a vacant seat at the Corporation of St George’s has been cancelled after a candidate withdrew. MacLaren Smith and David Chew were both expected to be on the ballot tomorrow, but according to a statement fro...

He was an activist with a firebrand streak, but even Walton Brown’s political opponents regarded him as more friend than foe. Members on both sides of the aisle shed a light on the personality behind the politician as they took part in a 3½-hour spec...