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Bermuda’s “soaring debt” has accumulated thanks to “pork barrel politics”, according to Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards. He told the House of Assembly on Friday the Island had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of public debt because of huge ...

Former Premier Sir David Gibbons has told a Caribbean news magazine that Bermuda’s Government is “simply not competent” and that the Island’s reinsurance industry is “very healthy”. In an interview published on Friday in Caribbean Journal, the former...

Opposition Senate leader Michael Dunkley is the public’s choice to lead the One Bermuda Alliance and the most popular out of 16 politicians polled in a new survey. Twenty-two percent of voters said Senator Dunkley would be the best OBA leader, with a...

Progressive Labour Party adopted candidates Leroy Bean and John Gibbons face a fight to hang onto their status after the party threw the door open for them to be challenged. It's understood Tourism Minister Patrice Minors could move from Smith's Nort...

Anti-Progressive Labur Party graffiti which appeared over last weekend has no place in Bermuda politics. The graffiti, depicting a Dennis the Menace type figure urinating on the PLP logo, is juvenile and meaningless. While this newspaper supports f...

Dear Sir, This letter is in reply to Polly of Smith’s letter of June 7, 2011 responding to my letter of the same date. First let me state that I do not accept that the strict adherence to a Constitution, any Constitution is malarkey, in the same w...

June 11, 2011 Dear Sir, Former UBP MP turned independent Darius Tucker joined the PLP last week. Considering that he has been seen at quite a few PLP functions in the recent past and voting along PLP party lines, let's just say that I am underwhelmed...

Give Health Minister Zane DeSilva a little credit for apologising for making an anti-Semitic slur in the House of Assembly. But it’s worrying that while he did withdraw the remark after making it in the House of Assembly, and did apologise for it ag...

June 14, 2011 Dear Sir, Recently I visited Bermuda for the first time. I enjoyed my time on the beautiful islands and was welcomed by so many beautiful Bermudians. I spent most of the day in the crowds at the Bermuda Day Parade. The organisers and th...

June 20, 2011 Dear Sir, In most western democratic countries, the implied social contract is the glue that holds society together. This implied contract between the people and the government guaranteeing the social and economic services to Bermudia...