A new leader of the Progressive Labour Party is to be elected next week following Marc Bean’s retirement from politics. Bean handed in a letter of resignation as Opposition Leader to the acting governor on Friday – a move which is expected to spark a wave of further exits by lawmakers and the Progressive Labour Party’s…...
PLP leader to make a third round of shadow cabinet changes
as David Burt resigns his portfolio for the second time in a year
Progressive Labour Party leader Marc Bean is to select a new shadow finance minister following David Burt’s resignation yesterday. The development is a significant moment in the ongoing struggle over the party’s leadership and is Burt’s second resignation of the shadow portfolio in less than a year. Bean has shuffled his shadow cabinet twice since…...
PLP MPs react angrily to Marc Bean interview
But official reaction is a stony silence; Furbert: responding is not "in the interests of the party, and Bermuda"
The rift between several Opposition MPs and their leader Marc Bean has deepened further since his August 3 interview with Politica. Several MPs have reacted with concern and anger demanding that he be held to account by the party machinery for some of his remarks. But MPs maintained a wall of silence in response to our…...
Marc Bean: “politics of plunder” will be history under my leadership
Opposition leader, on sick leave since March, to return to office soon
includes full one hour audio interview In his first interview since taking sick leave after suffering a stroke in March, Progressive Labour Party leader Marc Bean says he will resume leadership with a different approach toward partisan politics and will continue pushing for a “politics of productivity” to replace what he calls the “politics of plunder”. But…...
PLP power struggle continues
but MP says the latest move against Marc Bean was "blown out of proportion"
includes very brief video interview with Marc Bean A faction of Progressive Labour Party MPs have persisted in efforts to remove Marc Bean as leader, according to reports reaching Politica. But at least one MP involved in what is referred to as a the latest attempted “coup” by some of Bean’s supporters, says that it…...