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Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has called an election that will happen in a couple of weeks, oddly in the middle of a fourth wave in the pandemic. Covid-19 is having an effect on the lives of people worldwide and contributing to their sense o...

It has been said that there are no friends in politics, only allies who have common interests that can and do shift from time to time. In fact, as former US president Harry Truman once famously said about life in Washington (read politics): if it is ...

Legislation to set out the framework for a more independent tribunal to hear human rights complaints was approved by the House of Assembly on Friday. Tinee Furbert, the Minister of Community, Culture and Sport, said the Human Rights Amendment Act 202...

In 2017 at the very beginning of the new Progressive Labour Party term in government, I recall the sentiments and spirit in which I wrote — coming off the back of the One Bermuda Alliance’s failure, but, more importantly, after the disastrous end to ...

“How long? Not long”, a speech by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr made on the steps of the State Capitol of Montgomery after the Selma to Montgomery march. Since that speech, how many times has that question borne relevance? Do we see an end t...

Chris Furbert levelled a threat in a recent address without any hint of frailty in saying that labour could bring down the Progressive Labour Party government. He went on to say that there are five members on the back bench they could count on for su...

David Burt, the Premier, acknowledged yesterday that he faces an “intensely personal” challenge from the Bermuda Industrial Union over voting rights in trade union legislation. In a lengthy interview with The Royal Gazette yesterday, the Premier rep...

A government body set up to compensate victims of crime has said it will “soon” comply with a public access to information order issued almost two years ago. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board was told by Information Commissioner Gitanjali Guti...

I had hoped never to have to write about an issue such as this episode between the Bermuda Industrial Union and the Government — in reality, about Chris Furbert and David Burt, the leaders of both groups. The stated issue of disagreement over the tra...

The Bermuda Industrial Union is threatening to hold a two-day strike next week over the issue of whether an employee has the right to decide on continuing to be represented by a trade union, regardless if that employee is a union member or not. The t...

Union negotiators and the Government should go head-to-head until a deal is struck over union decertification votes, an Opposition MP said last night. Jarion Richardson, the shadow labour minister, said: “We recommend the negotiators enter a room, B...