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Generous donors for 16 percussion students to learn Afro-Cuban percussion were thanked at an awards ceremony on Friday. Music professor Eddie Ming, who teaches drumming from the Rhythm Lab in St George’s, presented certificates to the youngsters. Age...

A historian has sounded a warning over a bid to rename Somers Day, the second day of Cup Match, after Mary Prince, a former slave and abolitionist. Somers Day, to be marked on Friday, was established to commemorate Admiral George Somers, who ran agro...

A Bermudian researcher said she was stunned to discover one of her own ancestors as she worked on the history of slavery on the island. LeYoni Junos, the author of ground-breaking research on the ex-slave and abolitionist author Mary Prince, said she...

The island’s parks and beaches opened yesterday for camping for the Cup Match holiday and weekend. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said campers and picnickers were welcome to set up and that camping would be allowed unti...

New information on the life of an ex-slave who became a major abolitionist figure has revealed the advantage of Bermudian researchers over those from overseas, an island academic claimed yesterday. LeYoni Junos said that her work on island-born Mary ...

A 54-year-old man who committed a string of sex offences against a ten-year-old girl more than two decades ago was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison. The woman’s victim impact statement read in Supreme Court said Pernell Brangman “groomed and...

A construction firm appealed to the Government to settle its unpaid bill topping $1 million for the Sandys 360 sports complex at the West End, an Opposition backbencher has revealed. Calling the failed gym a “black hole”, Trevor Moniz, a former publi...

Eight years of investigations into Ewart Brown have left the former premier unable to clear his name, MPs heard on Friday. Michael Scott, a Progressive Labour Party backbencher, castigated the police investigation into Dr Brown, who has never been ch...

Bermuda’s war veterans and their widows were given a pensions boost during Friday’s sitting of the House of Assembly. The Pensions (War Service) Order 2019 raised the monthly payment due to veterans from $800 to $1,000. The debate, opened by Wayne Ca...

Landmarks from the life of Mary Prince, a Bermudian ex-slave who became an icon of the abolitionist movement, were explored last night in a lecture by a Canadian historian dedicated to researching her life. Margot Maddison-MacFadyen is also starting ...