Changes to the $1 million-a-week financial assistance system and a “culture of entitlement” have to be made, Minister of Social Development and Sport Zane DeSilva said yesterday.
Mr DeSilva warned: “It’s well recognised that the current expenditure o...
Special Olympian Paul Ray has been remembered by his family as a model of self-reliance despite suffering with Down syndrome.
Keen sportsman Mr Ray, who died on September 10 aged 60, brought home a silver medal for golf in the 2011 Special Olympics.
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DATE: Sep 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Whatever you do, don’t tell an Australian that they were “born with a silver spoon” in their mouth — especially not after the actor Rebel Wilson won Australia’s biggest-ever defamation payment.
The charge against her? She had been accused of having a...
The economy and jobs for Bermudians were among the major topics discussed in the Senate yesterday as the Throne Speech was debated.
One Bermuda Alliance senator Nick Kempe said he believed that the focus for job creation should be on the private sect...
Governments in free societies worldwide often stumble badly when they fail to keep good public relations as a priority. Bermuda is no exception and we have seen governments over the years fall short in the crucial area of public relations. This is a ...
Conversations about independence are “counterproductive at this time”, according to David Burt.
The Premier insisted the Progressive Labour Party is not discussing a potential attempt to break ties with Britain, and is focusing instead on local issue...
Few issues on the Bermuda political agenda have been as assiduously avoided and talked around in recent years as independence.
For all practical purposes, the matter was filed and forgotten along with the final report of former premier Alex Scott’s 2...
It’s a “What if ...” question that can only be speculated upon but not definitively answered, at least not yet.
And it’s one that is being increasingly asked given the likely convergence in the coming months of two seemingly unrelated but rather obvi...
Speculation that the Bermuda Government was considering independence has been dismissed.
“The position is this; it was not in our platform, we have not discussed it,” Jamahl Simmons, Minister of Economic Development and Tourism, said yesterday.
Mr Si...
DATE: Sep 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
The recent call for independence by Senator Jason Hayward at the Labour Day rally should not be a cause for alarm or surprise — and it was to be expected. There has always been a sector of labour that has wanted independence. They are not alone becau...
