Category: Politics
Podcast: FBA Chairperson Justin Mathias
Future Bermuda Alliance Chairperson Justin Mathias sat down with Bernews for a live interview on our Facebook page, with the resulting audio extracted and provided in podcast form to provide an additional listening option.
Podcast: Minister of Transport & Regulatory Affairs Walter Roban
Minister of Transport & Regulatory Affairs Walter Roban sat down with Bernews today for a live interview on our Facebook page, with the resulting audio extracted and provided in podcast form to provide an additional listening option. Minister Roban discussed a wide range of topics including the airport project, buses, ferries, rental minicars and more with guest interviewer Jeremy Deacon.
Podcast: National Security Minister Wayne Caines
National Security Minister Wayne Caines sat down with Bernews today for a live interview on our Facebook page, with the resulting audio extracted and provided in podcast form to provide an additional listening option.
The Minister discussed a wide range of topics including the creating a Police Authority, the Royal Bermuda Regiment assuming responsibility for inshore maritime patrolling from the police, ending conscription, and more with guest interviewer Jeremy Deacon.
Podcast: Premier & Minister of Finance David Burt
Premier and Minister of Finance David Burt sat down with Bernews today for a live interview on our Facebook page, with the resulting audio extracted and provided in podcast form to provide an additional listening option. The Premier discussed a wide range of topics including the election victory, the budget, the aiport deal, a living wage, job creation, independence and more with guest interviewer Jeremy Deacon.
Podcast: Home Affairs Minister Walton Brown
Home Affairs Minister Walton Brown sat down with Bernews for a live interview on our Facebook page, with the resulting audio extracted and provided in podcast form to provide an additional listening option.
Minister Brown discussed a wide range of topics including immigration, work permits, politics, the general election results, same sex marriage, his views on Independence and more.
Podcast: Opposition Leader Patricia Gordon Pamplin
Opposition Leader Patricia Gordon Pamplin sat down with Bernews for a live interview on our Facebook page, with the resulting audio extracted and provided in podcast form to provide an additional listening option.
Opposition Leader Pamplin discussed a wide range of topics including the election loss, how the OBA governed, the PLP, the future leadership of the OBA and more.
This interview follows after the OBA’s election loss, which saw the PLP record a 24-12 win, and former Premier Michael Dunkley resign as leader, and Ms Gordon-Pamplin selected as the new leader.
Podcast: Former MP John Barritt
The possibility he may run as an Independent candidate in the upcoming general election, the Commission of Inquiry, and politics in general were among the topics discussed when former MP John Barritt sat down with guest interviewer Jeremy Deacon for our latest live Facebook interview, with the resulting audio extracted and provided in podcast form to provide an additional listening option.
Podcast: MP Wayne Furbert On Marriage Bill
MP Wayne Furbert said the Human Rights Amendment Act 2017 — which seeks to make an amendment to define marriage between a male and a female — will be debated in the House of Assembly in July of this year.
The Private Members Bill seeks to, in effect, restrict marriage to between a man and woman, and follows after a landmark court ruling which paved the way for same sex marriage in Bermuda.
Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche filed a legal challenge after their marriage application was declined by Bermuda’s Registrar-General, and the court ruled in their favour , paving the way for same sex marriage.
The Bill — which is a Private Members Bill brought by Mr Furbert — states, “Whereas it is expedient to amend the Human Rights Act 1982, to preserve the institution of marriage; Be it enacted by The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Assembly of Bermuda, and by the authority of the same, as follows;
“In section 2 of the Human Rights Act 1981, at the end insert— [5] Nothing in this section shall be taken to override the provisions of section 15[c] of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1974 [which provides that a marriage is void unless the parties are respectively male and female].”
Mr Furbert sat down with Bernews for a video interview, with the resulting audio extracted and provided in podcast form to provide an additional listening option.
Podcast: US Consul General Mary Ellen Koenig
The drivers license issue, the Uighurs, the Stop List, upcoming America’s Cup, and the relationship with the Bermuda Government were among the topics discussed when US Consul General Mary Ellen Koenig sat down with guest interviewer Jeremy Deacon for our latest live interview, with the resulting audio extracted and provided in podcast form to provide an additional listening option.
Podcast: Minister Jeanne Atherden
Minister of Health and Seniors Jeanne Atherden sat down with Bernews today for a live interview on our Facebook page, with the resulting audio extracted and provided in podcast form to provide an additional listening option.
Minister Atherden discussed a wide range of topics including healthcare costs, regulating health providers, the issue of precertification, the recent hospital bed crisis, long term care for seniors, the Mental Health Act, Stemedica and more.
