Lavita Foggo

On December 18, Bermuda held its 10th general election since the introduction of party politics in the 1960s. A seven-week election campaign ended in exactly the same fashion as the previous election in 2003 had ended, with a victory by 22 seats to 14 for the Progressive Labour Party (PLP). The campaign, by Bermuda standards, was deeply unpleasant. Dr. Ewart Brown, the PLP leader, set the tone, his very first speech peppered with accusations that his opponents were "vile and vicious" and "demented deviants".