The past few weeks have provided an invaluable insight into what some of the electorate are talking about and what their concerns really are.
Every time I stop and talk to the voters in Warwick North East, the same issues crop up: affordable healthca...
Do you remember being little? All the doting relatives asking what you were going to be when you grow up. Young children are always so truthful, so sincere, and breathtakingly honest.
Some children say they want to be a diver, while others it was to ...
A Brazilian supermodel who lost her engagement ring on a Bermuda beach has had it returned, thanks to the assistance of David Burt.
Metal detectorist Andrew Roberts was called in, and located the massive diamond ring within minutes. Now the happy c...
When I was a younger man, I was very inclined towards the thought of Bermuda as a nation. Perhaps influenced by the postwar environment where from my house as a child I watched American naval ships, aircraft carriers and seaplanes — at times crashing...
DATE: May 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Khalid Wasi
Bermuda’s Constitution is unfinished because it failed to give human rights protection to women and gay people, One Bermuda Alliance senator Andrew Simons said yesterday.
Mr Simons told the Senate that there was a “certain irony” to David Burt’s call...
DATE: May 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The Centre for Justice is to host a conference to reflect on the history and future of the Constitution.
A spokeswoman for the centre said democracy, fundamental rights and justice will be up for discussion at the event to mark the Constitution’s 50t...
DATE: May 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: News Staff
On December 4 last year, I wrote an opinion that was headlined “A campaign of independence by stealth”, in which I reminded the public about a number of utterances by high-ranking Progressive Labour Party members since the July 2017 election making t...
Dear Sir,
I read with interest in The Royal Gazette, the recent comments of our premier, David Burt, who, in the House of Assembly said that the Progressive Labour Party’s constitution committed the party “to serve as a vehicle in moving Bermuda to i...
DATE: May 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
David Burt made a case for Bermudian independence yesterday because he said it was unfair that Britain still exercised power over the island’s affairs.
The Premier told the House of Assembly it was “unacceptable in a modern democracy” to have “decisi...
DATE: May 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The following is a repurposing of the Premier’s speech to the House of Assembly on the 50th anniversary of Universal Adult Suffrage in Bermuda:
Mr Speaker, Madame President, Honourable Members of the House of Assembly and the Senate, former premiers,...
DATE: May 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: David Burt, Premier of Bermuda
