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Bermuda is to push ahead with plans to develop a new airport after two Bills crucial to the project were passed in the Senate last night. While all Progressive Labour Party senators voted against the Bermuda Airport Authority Act 2017 the Bill was s...

Dear Sir, Two points occur to me in connection with Wendell Hollis and Andrew Outerbridge’s alternative design for the new airport building. Adding a lot of pointy roofs and a moon gate does not necessarily make a building look more Bermudian, and I ...

Two Bills crucial to the Bermuda Government’s airport redevelopment were finally approved by 5.15am on Saturday, after a hard-fought 14 hours in the House of Assembly, The Upper House will be the next focal point for lobbying of legislators — with t...

Michael Dunkley has pledged to bridge divisions as the dust settles on the contentious airport debate. The Premier acknowledged he had seen “very impassioned debate from both sides of the aisle” as the Airport Development Concession Act and the Bermu...

They responded to the rallying cry and gathered for another day of protests, but by 9.15am they were sent back to work. Between 150 and 200 people were at Union Square yesterday morning, with a podium set up and speakers playing gospel music, in anti...

Chris Furbert says he will continue to head the Bermuda Industrial Union after protests focusing on the proposed airport expansion plan failed to materialise yesterday. “My position is not up until 2018,” the BIU president told The Royal Gazette. “I...

Michael Dunkley has said he was in phone contact with the Commissioner of Police during the protests of December 2. Speaking in the House of Assembly, the Premier said that he had six separate phone conversations with the Commissioner on the day of p...

Sylvan Richards formally apologised in the House of Assembly yesterday for remarks he made last week during a heated debate. Mr Richards, the Minister of Social Development and Sport, was told to leave the chamber by Speaker of the House Randy Horton...

TOMORROW • Allen Temple AME Church: Join our Men’s Day celebrations at 8am with Rev Howard Dill; 11am with Rev Gilbert Hayward of Richard Allen AME Church and 4pm with Rev Larry Smith of Bethel AME Church. 2 Temple Lane, Sandys, 234-0433. FEBRUARY 25...

A handful of protesters turned up at the House of Assembly yesterday to make their own stand against the airport Bill, with one saying they didn’t need the union to lead them as if “we have got a ring in our nose”. The majority of those making a pea...

The Progressive Labour Party refuses to go quietly into the night on the airport redevelopment project and has now called on the public to flood senators with their concerns about LF Wade International being turned over for “privatisation”. Parliame...

Legislation paving the way for the Bermuda Government’s airport redevelopment project has been approved by MPs despite vociferous opposition from Progressive Labour Party MPs. At 4.20am today, after almost 14 hours of debate, the Airport Authority Ac...