More than 1,000 people streamed through the gates of Southlands yesterday for an event organised by environmentalists campaigning to save the estate from development.
The Bermuda Environmental and Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) estimated that at lea...
DATE: Mar 22, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Wayne Furbert in August 2006: "The PLP's statement this week to continue pushing Independence indicates that there is a major disconnect between the Government and the people.
"Instead of talking up Independence, the Government should start listening...
MPs have approved an additional $400,000 in costs to resurface the airport and bring it up to new fire safety standards.
The supplementary amounts for the past 2009-10 financial year are $150,000 for 'Resurface Taxi Ways and Aprons' and $250,000 for ...
The following is the full text of the speech delivered by Member of Parliament for Hamilton Parish West as he joined the Progressive Labour Party.
"I' am Who I' am"
Mr. Speaker, I stand this morning to give you and the Honourable Members of this Hous...
Two representatives from the Cambridge International Curriculum have been providing on-Island support for principals and teachers in preparation for the rollout in September.
The new curriculum is scheduled to be fully implemented in all public schoo...
Two new members have been inducted into the Company of Fellows of the Bermuda College.
They are the Vice-President of the Bermuda Senate, Dr. Idwal (Walwyn) Hughes, CBE, JP, whose 40 years of public service to the Bermuda Government included being D...
Opposition MPs last night demanded a better explanation from Government as to why it spent an extra $15 million last year on a subsidy for King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
The Budget for 2009/10 gave an original estimate of $85.6 million for the su...
Cutting the Ministry of Education's budget by $6 million is not the right way forward, according to the Bermuda Public Services Union (BPSU).
BPSU general secretary Ed Ball Jr. said he thought the Ministry would have been the last to have a budget de...
Former United Bermuda Party Leader Wayne Furbert will today cross the floor of the House of Assembly to join his old rival the Progressive Labour Party.
But a frosty welcome for the long-serving politician appeared in store from some backbenchers spe...
DATE: Mar 19, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Below is the full text of the speech made by Wayne Furbert in the House of Assembly this morning. The former United Bermuda Party leader today formally joined his old rival, the Progressive Labour Party.
I am Who I am
Mr. Speaker, I stand this mornin...
