The call for a General Election is weeks overdue. If I was the Premier, we would have been halfway through canvassing by now.
For any astute premier and politician, it makes good sense after scoring reasonable success at handling the Covid-19 pandem...
We have been dealt a terrible and unexpected blow — Covid-19. For Bermuda, the pandemic arrived at a time when business confidence was already at a record low and the economy failing.
Thanks to David Burt and his flawed government policies, a pre-Cov...
Commentators claimed that it was a smart political move by the Premier to call a General Election about two years earlier than required.
They highlighted the chance for David Burt’s government to capitalise on the Covid-19 pandemic bounce caused by p...
Teamwork is equally as important as physical strength. That may just have been the biggest lesson learnt by a group of teenagers who spent three days on Spirit of Bermuda working towards the Silver level of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award...
DATE: Aug 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
The retirement of veteran Opposition MP Trevor Moniz has forced a by-election in the constituency of Smith’s West. Former senator Vic Ball is running for the One Bermuda Alliance, while an announcement from the governing Progressive Labour Party is e...
DATE: Aug 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
A letter by the Premier to the Opposition leader posted on social media was condemned as a “cheap political PR stunt” by Craig Cannonier yesterday.
David Burt published the correspondence, addressed to Mr Cannonier, on Twitter “in the interest of tra...
Zeiko Lewis scored his third goal of the season in Charleston Battery’s 1-1 draw at home to Charlotte Independence in the USL Championship on Saturday.
Lewis’s shot was deflected off Charlotte defender Aaron Maund into the net in the 42nd minute to c...
Trevor Moniz was candid about his maverick, sometimes gadfly status yesterday, as the Opposition MP for Smith’s West announced his retirement from politics.
Mr Moniz described himself as a reluctant politician when he started out in the United Bermud...
DATE: Aug 04, 2020 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Trevor Moniz, a Smith’s MP for 27 years under the United Bermuda Party and the One Bermuda Alliance, announced his retirement from politics yesterday.
The veteran politician cited the need to “bring new blood to the House of Assembly”.
The often mave...
DATE: Aug 04, 2020 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The drive for further political reform continued after 1968 and the adoption of a written constitution by British order. But change came slowly.
There was the unresolved, unfinished business of the electoral system and whether parish-based, dual-seat...
DATE: Aug 03, 2020 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: John Barritt
