About 24 members of the Bermuda Industrial Union descended on police headquarters this morning to file complaints against officers who discharged pepper spray indiscriminately on unarmed non-violent protesters. They were directed to the Police conduct unit – formerly the police complaints authority – on lower Court Street, to make individual complaints. Accompanying the complainants were […]
Pepper spray used in police assault of airport protesters
Police use of Captor spray may have been in violation of established protocol
Police officers physically assaulted people outside the House of Assembly and discharged a form or pepper spray in what could be a breach of protocol on Friday. The incapacitant spray known as “Captor” was issued to officers of the Bermuda Police Service in 2005 for use “only on those occasions when there is an immediate and […]
David Burt appoints Marc Bean allies and detractors to his shadow cabinet
Strongest female representation since 2012
Newly minted opposition leader David Burt has announced a 13-member shadow cabinet, bringing three of his predecessor’s allies into the front bench – two of them senators – and retaining all the members of the former shadow cabinet. But Rolfe Commissiong, Zane DeSilva, Derrick Burgess and Wayne Furbert – all members of the rebel group opposed […]
Government used flawed methodology to assess airport options – Craig Mayor
A government financial analysis on the airport project contains “significant and unacceptable errors and omissions” and used a flawed methodology to assess options for the airport, the Public Accounts Committee has heard. On Thursday, Craig Mayor, a retired accountant who spent the last 20 years of his career handling credit facilities and guarantees for a […]
The meaning of Brexit
The political scientist and theorist Francis Fukuyama in a 1989 essay once wrote that with the triumph of Western Liberal values – the precursor of neo-liberalism at the end of the cold war – that that would signal an end to history itself. Well on the 23rd of June, 2016, millions of British voters thought […]
Racial and socioeconomic realities a deadly cocktail for black men
Opinion by Rolfe Commissiong
A little more than a year-and-a-half ago, a reporter asked me and other political and community leaders whether the abatement, or lull, in gun violence in Bermuda then signalled that that horrific trend had come to its long overdue end. I essentially said no. Realizing then that one season does not a year make, and […]
Another legend crosses over
"You would hear that voice, and that voice would capture a humanity, and that voice would calm you in so many ways through some of the most significant challenges."
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Full video: DeSilva appears before Public Accounts Committee over golf course project
Former Minister responds to questions about his company's dealings with the project
Opposition MP Zane DeSilva yesterday responded to suggestions of insider dealings over the Port Royal golf project, telling the Public Accounts Committee that he recused himself from relevant meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Golf Courses, and that the Auditor General made some factual errors in her Special Report on the $24 million […]
Immigration. Its History. Its Legacy
Presentation by Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda (CURB). March 11, 2016, Cathedral Hall
Bermuda’s racialized immigration regime and other laws have been used to control the Island’s black population throughout its history for political, social and economic purposes. Measures were devised to curb black political expression, keep the numbers of blacks within acceptable limits, and preserve white political and economic power. Post Emancipation there were deliberate attempts to […]
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