took the floor to denounce the Reply as "the new UBP with the same dry drivel". He listed a number of housing schemes in the works, insisting that there was a plan to address the affordable housing crisis.
And Mr. DeVent said over 230 houses will com...
The 2004 Throne Speech is the result of an ?accidental Premier? and his colleagues fighting for political survival, Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons told the House of Assembly yesterday.
?If the PLP Government didn?t really have a Social Agenda before...
As the debate of the Throne Speech kicked off yesterday, took the opportunity to tell members of the House of Assembly that rent increases for seniors on a ?case by case basis?.
When he accused others of ?politicising? the issue, however, ? who has b...
The requirement for new hotel developments to provide staff housing will ensure housing is provided for all hotel workers ? not just expatriates, Tourism Minister Ewart Brown promised yesterday.
"No longer will our people be made to compete against t...
Prison Commissioner Hubert Dean has had his contract extended to two years from six months after helping to turn the service around.
He was appointed on a short-term basis after Lt. Col. John Prescod was sacked after clashing with staff and failing t...
started his contribution to the Throne Speech debate by saying that all the PLP's programmes were based on principles set by its founding fathers.
And he said Bermuda owed much to the PLP's founding fathers.
"We would not have seen much of the social...
Mr. Speaker,
Talk about the Scott government?s new social agenda began earlier this year just as fallout from the Berkeley fiasco and the BHC police investigation thoroughly undermined what was left of Bermuda?s reputation for integrity, good governm...
Two young parents were sentenced to spend six years behind bars in the Supreme Court yesterday for importing heroin and cocaine with a street value of almost $200,000 in an effort to ease their financial troubles.
Danita Trott, 23, of Ferry Reach Roa...
Twenty hard working students received their GEDs yesterday. GED graduates from CARE (in alphabetical order) were Sadae Bean, Dwyia Blydan, Maurico Bradshaw, Quinnae Fox, Ajalae Jones, Donavin Paynter, Shawn Rogers, Ahyaana Saltus, Tonka Simpson, G. C...
THE overwhelming majority of Bermudians no more look to Throne Speeches for Government agendas than they consult decks of Tarot Cards for career advice or horoscopes to draw up their daily diaries.
If Throne Speeches are remarked on at all the commen...
