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The December 2, 2016 protest was not the first mass demonstration to take place during the One Bermuda Alliance’s term in office. A number of rallies were staged in the months before that day. On July 15, 2014, there was a massive march on Governmen...

In July 2019, David Burt gave a passionate speech in Parliament about the infamous December 2 protest – an event he had helped organise two-and-a-half years earlier when he was Opposition Leader and which had already spawned three separate inquiries....

The Premier’s repeated predictions that Bermuda’s first casino would open before the end of the year are to fall flat. David Burt, with just one month to the deadline, will not achieve his “dream and expectation” and see gambling at the St Regis Hote...

David Burt, the Premier, rightly said last Friday that he will rule out nothing when planning how to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. Asked if it would be necessary to bring in tougher restrictions, Mr Burt said every leader who had had to deal with...

One Bermuda Alliance leader Cole Simons has admitted his party made mistakes in power as he accused the Government of being obsessed with the political blame game. Mr Simons hit back at David Burt, the Premier, after he launched a string of attacks o...

The Governor and the Premier appear to be on a collision course over a plan for the liberalisation of cannabis laws. Rena Lalgie, the Governor, has made it clear legalisation of cannabis for purposes other than medicinal and scientific use, or some i...

The Government had “no intention” of tailoring its proposal to licence cannabis production to fit with the UK’s conventions that allows use of the drug for medicinal purposes only. David Burt, the Premier, underlined that legislation of cannabis in B...

A murdered British MP has been honoured by the Premier at a wreath-laying ceremony at Westminster. David Burt, in London for a UK Overseas Territories summit, was joined at the remembrance event for Sir David Amess by Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker o...

David Burt has defended the pace of constitutional reform after the same promises on changes in the relationship with the UK were made in two successive Throne Speeches. The Premier insisted that it was wrong to say very little had been done on the ...

A meeting of Overseas Territories leaders in London today was headed by the Premier. David Burt said topics from climate change to the impact of the pandemic on Overseas Territories’ economies were up for discussion at the annual Joint Ministerial Co...

A memorial tree in commemoration of the island’s 106 victims of Covid-19 has been planted. The Bermuda cedar was placed in the Botanical Gardens in Paget by David Burt, the Premier and Kim Wilson, the health minister. Mr Burt said more Bermudians had...

The owners of the Fairmont Southampton will not have the redevelopment of the resort underwritten by the Government, the finance minister has said. Curtis Dickinson emphasised that no government could be expected to take on the risks of private devel...