After listening to both sides of the House of Assembly on the Throne Speech, it becomes clear that there are polar opposites operating at two extremes of the political spectrum.
Take the issue of sovereignty. The PLP basically said the people are rea...
The Government is ducking what should be top priorities in the coming legislative year, according to several senators.
The claim was made during a debate in the Upper House today on the Throne Speech, which was delivered earlier this month.
Owen Darr...
Bermuda must have a mature discussion about sovereignty that is neither adversarial nor has the aim of gaining political ground, David Burt has said.
However, speaking during the motion to adjourn on Friday night, the Premier said that Bermuda shoul...
DATE: Nov 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
People are having to choose between eating and paying bills because the Government has failed the test of hard times, Cole Simons, the Opposition leader has insisted.
Giving the One Bermuda Alliance’s response to the Throne Speech yesterday, Mr Simo...
The Bermuda Government was empowered to actively consider the “full range” of self-governance options when the UK Government’s actions had the effect of “erasure or neutering” local policies, the Attorney-General said.
Kathy-Lynn Simmons, who is als...
Constitutional reform will feature strongly in the House of Assembly as a study on how self-government would work is discussed by MPs.
The document, commissioned by the Government, was revealed in the Throne Speech, but scant detail of its conte...
The beginning of the Westminster system dates back to the Magna Carta, which was a document created in 1215 that put a limit and check on the powers allowed to the monarch. Before the Magna Carta, the monarchs had absolute reign over all their subjec...
The UK’s Financial Times has joined a slew of UK media organisations reporting on the plight of one of London’s oldest restaurants which is operating from Bermuda.
Tavor Holdings, registered on Victoria Street in Hamilton, owns the property which ha...
DATE: Nov 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Carlyle Corbin, the author of the Options for Sovereignty report, cannot be said to be an impartial or benign scholar of sovereignty, given he is himself an advocate of self-determination. It is OK to be an advocate and, perhaps, that is even a noble...
A push for independence will bring Bermuda a financial burden it can ill afford, the Opposition has insisted.
Cole Simons, the One Bermuda Alliance leader, claimed that David Burt is getting ahead of the people for the sake of his own personal poli...
