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Don't count on that Black Friday bargain. This holiday season, stores will not be competing on price — the battleground will be availability. With shoppers buoyant (for now), there is little need to simulate demand, while supply shortages and higher ...

Dear Sir, I read Libby Madeiros’s letter in The Royal Gazette yesterday (July 14, 2021) and would have agreed with her. However, the day before I had been to Masters and my opinion about customer service was very pleasantly changed. I needed patio cu...

In Greek mythology, Daedalus was a brilliant inventor who fashioned wings for him and his son, Icarus, to escape imprisonment. Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun. But Icarus, heady with the power of flight, couldn't help himself. ...

Dear Sir, I read with a sad heart that several big-name baby food companies had to respond to allegations that they knew there were high levels of cadmium, lead and mercury in their baby food products. Parents who had believed that they had been fee...

Dear Sir, Your recent article on rising food prices in Bermuda (June 11, 2021) was quite distressing to read. Many Bermudian families are finding it difficult to keep up with these alarming costs. Chicken has doubled in price since the beginning of t...

No, Bermuda merchants are not ripping us off as some claim — although it certainly feels like it at times. As many would attest, buying goods in Bermuda has been historically expensive. So why does it “feel” like prices on the island have been gettin...

Dear Sir, The following is addressed to the Bermuda community. So far, the year 2021 has resulted in a sense of uncertainty across the globe. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the change in political leadership in the United States and the ensuing econo...

Living in Bermuda, one becomes used to waiting for a considerable amount of time to deliver something ordered online. It is not unusual to wait up to three weeks to a month to receive the desired goods. More often than not, one can look on Facebook a...

I recently wrote that many consider brunello Italy’s finest red wine and now I feel a little guilty, as this was rather like trying to decide whether burgundy or bordeaux is the finest that France has to offer. Barolo, made from the nebbiolo grape, ...

The Shell Lubricants brand is back in Bermuda after AMT Supplies Ltd was granted a licence to distribute the range of lubricants, greases and oils in Bermuda. The products have not been available during a “brief distribution hiatus”, according to Pem...

The Somers Isles Trading Company has won the duty-free and speciality retail concession for the new passenger terminal at the LF Wade International Airport. Rhona Sutton, an island resident, founded the company. She is an entrepreneur and founder of ...