The Bermuda Government has announced that it is to call a referendum on same-sex marriage and civil unions.
Michael Dunkley, the Premier, called a press conference this morning, accompanied by Patricia Gordon Pamplin, Minister for Community, Culture ...
DATE: Mar 01, 2016 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Dear Sir,
I wrote a letter about Marcus Garvey, published in The Royal Gazette, which also spoke of our migration from the West Indies in the late 19th century. Intentionally, I also gave a small comparison of the socioeconomic difference of post-ema...
DATE: Mar 01, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
On December 18, 2015 President Obama signed the “Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015” (PATH Act). With significant publicity it was as if it was a Christmas present from President Obama and Congress to the American people. A few weeks pri...
Shadow education minister Lovitta Foggo believes Bermuda’s education system should take precedence over a new airport or the America’s Cup in light of the damning school reorganisation report.
While Ms Foggo said she could not place the blame for the...
The proposed “Pathways to Status” giving permanent resident’s certificates to those who have been here for 15 years is environmentally unsustainable, racially divisive and salt in the wound to those who are unemployed. Evidently, this would not have ...
DATE: Feb 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Cheryl Pooley
When we lose respect for each other, whether it is at the kitchen table or on the front lines of political activity, the inability to reason within an atmosphere of decency and sound judgment has a tendency to create negative emotions that appeal to ...
DATE: Feb 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Al Seymour
When stress was high and money was low, Shurnett Caines turned to prayer.
She and her husband Michael faced one of their most trying times when their four children — Shereen, Dwayne, Wayne and Travis — were in college in the 1990s.
They had no clue ...
Minister of Home Affairs Michael Fahy has described the notion of Bermuda’s proposed immigration reform opening the floodgates to foreigners as a “myth”.
The minister was speaking during a live interview on the government-owned TV station CITV hosted...
DATE: Feb 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The former Minister for Education Grant Gibbons said he hopes that Gilbert Institute does not close as part of his party’s school reorganisation [Score] plan.
Dr Gibbons, who handed over the One Bermuda Alliance education portfolio to Wayne Scott las...
DATE: Feb 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Sir John Swan says Bermuda has an urgent economic need to bring in more people from overseas and failure to lower immigration barriers in a carefully planned way will limit opportunities for the next generation.
The former Premier was among an audien...
