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AUCKLAND (AP) — The next America’s Cup will be contested in radical, single-hull boats that will rise up on hydrofoils and speed across the tops of the waves. Emirates Team New Zealand, who won AC35 in Bermuda last summer and are always bold in pushi...

Plans to move Artemis Racing’s America’s Cup guest pavilion into Hamilton and turn it into a visitor’s information centre have been given the green light. The Bermuda Tourism Authority’s proposal to move the building to a site on Front Street near th...

Education minister Diallo Rabain yesterday hit back at the idea that Bermuda’s America’s Cup group had “gifted” nearly $150,000 of wi-fi equipment to the island’s public schools. A legacy report from ACBDA last week said that it and the America’s Cup...

Senators divided along party lines yesterday when debating the impact of the America’s Cup. One Bermuda Alliance senator Nick Kempe said government spending should be viewed as “an investment versus an expense”, and highlighted a report by profession...

A Bermudian graphic design company has donated copies of its America’s Cup Activity Book in honour of National Philanthropy Day. SJD World gave copies of the book, which includes child-friendly games, puzzles and educational resources, to ten commun...

The Opposition has challenged the Government to issue a public statement on the success of this year’s America’s Cup. Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the Leader of the Opposition, questioned why the Government had failed to comment on a report that conclud...

The legacy of the America’s Cup for Bermuda will depend on follow-up action and leadership, ACBDA chief executive Mike Winfield said. He added the financial figures in an independent PricewaterhouseCoopers report on the event were impressive, but tha...

As the One Bermuda Alliance government minister with responsibility for the 2017 America’s Cup, I was pleased to read PwC’s independent assessment of the event, which clearly demonstrates the significant contribution that AC35 made to Bermuda’s econo...

The 2017 America’s Cup often proved a hard sell with the Progressive Labour Party, which supported bringing the races to the island, but voiced scepticism on its benefits. The regatta had detractors within its own ranks: champion American sailor Denn...

The America’s Cup will give a $330 million boost to the island’s economy and the event came in nearly $13 million under budget, the ACBDA announced yesterday. The $336.4 million impact on the island’s gross domestic product will include a predicted $...

A series of sailing events is set to bring thousands of visitors to the island, the Bermuda Tourism Authority predicted yesterday. The BTA highlighted eight marine events coming to Bermuda between March and July next year as it unveiled the 2018 sail...

Political bickering over the America’s Cup risks undermining the island’s ability to host other large international events, according to Grant Gibbons, the Shadow Minister of Economic Development. “It has clearly been politicised to a degree — it’s u...