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My colleague, Minister Wayne Scott, wrote recently about the way the Combined Opposition changes its story as its objections to the airport plan are proved, one by one, to be false. I’d like to try to demonstrate how that works by showing that a re...

The Government of Canada is pleased and honoured to be working with the Government of Bermuda on the redevelopment of the L.F. Wade International Airport. Developed co-operatively between our two countries, and to be delivered through an innovative p...

Bermuda’s major international insurance companies believe the island needs a new airport to replace the current “decrepit” structure. The Association of Bermuda International Insurers and Reinsurers this morning issued a statement saying it did not t...

Here’s something about the deal to build a new airport you may not have noticed before: if the Combined Opposition get an answer they can’t deny to one issue, they move on to another. Take the question of whether Bermuda needs a new airport. The Prog...

Competitive tendering would not work in the bid to build a new airport, Bob Richards said yesterday. Mr Richards, the Minister of Finance, said that putting out a tender to design and build the new airport would mean an estimated $575 million in extr...

At the turn of the 20th century, tourism in Bermuda was becoming established. The Princess Hotel had been built and named after Queen Victoria’s granddaughter, Princess Louise, who put the island on the map by spending her winters here with her entou...

A JetBlue flight was diverted to Bermuda after a 63-year-old man complained of chest pains. The flight, bound for the Dominican Republic, arrived on the island shortly after 7pm yesterday. According to the Bermuda Police Service, the victim was taken...

The Bermuda Government’s sole-source deal for a new airport terminal has been defended as the only way to avoid extra debt, according to Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance. Mr Richards was responding to the latest critique of the proposal by the ...

The Bermuda Government and the Bermuda Tourism Authority have lamented the suspension of the United Airlines service to Newark this autumn. While the airline cut winter service to the city in 2014, it last year elected to offer three weekly flights t...

The Bermuda Government let its airport development proposal fall into controversy because of its “communications issues”, the Chamber of Commerce has claimed. However, the Chamber gave its backing to the Government to proceed with a new terminal, whi...

A Progressive Labour Party government would not pull the plug on the proposal for a new airport terminal, according to David Burt, the Acting Leader of the Opposition. “A lot of times in the community, it’s said that if the PLP return to the Governme...

Bob Richards has condemned the People’s Campaign for its “unfortunate, misplaced and deliberately inflammatory” comparison of the airport redevelopment deal with slavery. The Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance spoke out yesterday, the day after ...