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A canvassing we will go A canvassing we will go Hi Ho the merry o A canvassing we will go. During the course of the past month, we have spent countless hours and days out on the canvassing trail, knocking on doors and speaking to Bermudians about ...

A by-election to determine who will represent Devonshire North Central in the House of Assembly will be held on February 4. The Governor, George Fergusson, has issued a writ of election for the Constituency 13 seat, it has been confirmed. Voter regi...

Dear Sir, Here is a simple question for 2016. If the British, Americans and Filipinos living abroad can vote, why can’t Bermudians? Canadians retain the right to vote from overseas, although under stricter guidelines — if you have lived outside of ...

News that the One Bermuda Alliance has opened up a 12-point lead in the polls is “encouraging”, party chairwoman and Senator Lynne Woolridge told The Royal Gazette. Sen Woolridge stressed that the OBA’s job is still unfinished as it attempts to lead ...

Kim Wilson is the public’s most popular choice to lead the Progressive Labour Party, according to a poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette. But Michael Weeks emerged as the favourite among PLP supporters, in the Global Research survey which assessed ...

The One Bermuda Alliance has a 12-point lead over the Progressive Labour Party, according to a new poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette. In the Global Research survey carried out this month, 42 per cent of registered voters said they would support ...

The urge to go, Mr Editor, can be strong; compelling even. Pressure can mount, becoming, well, quite intense, practically unbearable. You know the deal, and thus it appears that there is but the one solution. It can be like that with the body politic...

“I’m not voting.” “I have never voted.” “All politicians are the same.” Statements made frequently. At first listen, I wonder why anyone would even have this rationale? Then I remember that many in my generation had this very same attitude at one po...

Any government interested in being re-elected is always conscious of the circumstances that led to its election in the first place. The present Bermuda Government campaigned in 2012 on what amounted to a slogan of “Getting Bermuda working again” afte...

The Progressive Labour Party has “driven a nail in the coffin” of its General Election hopes, according to elder statesman Reginald Burrows. Mr Burrows, a PLP MP and senator from 1968 to 2005, warned that the split — which has seen seven MPs resign f...

Andrew Simons is the One Bermuda Alliance’s chosen candidate for constituency 13, The Royal Gazette understands. The young politician, who ran for Pembroke Central in 2012 but lost to Walton Brown, has been accepted to run for Devonshire North Centr...

Actual Blackberry Messenger conversation from November 2012 DR: What’s up, fowl? TCF: D Sky. DR: I need you to help me with some canvassing tomorrow. TCF: Where? DR: Knapton Hill. TCF: Knapton Hill? You do know that hill is very, very steep, right? D...