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Chocolate and sugar-laden breakfast cereals will be affected by the sugar tax from the start of next month, the Government said yesterday. However, drinks with artificial sweeteners instead of sugar will be excluded from the hikes. A spokeswoman for...

Feven Binega-Northcott’s family joked that she’d get lost in the Bermuda Triangle when she moved to the island from her Ethiopian birthplace, after marrying Bermudian Jonathan Northcott. Her family’s words had a ring of prophecy, because she hasn’t b...

Bermuda’s retailers are planning a Sunday Shopping Festival the day after the MS Amlin World Triathlon Bermuda. The international sporting event, scheduled for April 27, attracts hundreds of amateur and professional athletes from the US, Canada, UK,...

Bluck’s of Bermuda has ceased trading after 175 years in business, and provisional liquidators have been appointed. The china, crystal and antiques shop on Front Street, which started out as a hardware store, has been operating since 1844. However, t...

Retail sales volume fell for an eighth successive month last October. After adjusting for the retail sales rate of inflation, measured at 2.3 per cent in October, the overall volume of retail sales decreased 0.4 per cent, the Department of Statistics...

Worldwide, in 80 countries, about 25,000 people belong to an organisation of food and wine lovers that can trace its roots back as far as 1248 when King Luis IX of France founded a guild of goose roasters. Each year, the Bermuda chapter of Chaîne d...

October’s Retail Sales Index report will be released “within the week”, a government minister promised yesterday. Typically, both the October and November Retail Sales Index reports, produced by the Department of Statistics, would have been released ...

Dear Sir, I understand that the inspection procedure has changed for imported bananas. However, I find this new arrangement very “un-a-peel-ing” and hope we can do better to get bananas on the shelves in a more timely manner. LIBBY MADEIROS Devonshir...

One of the island’s most well-known sport shops is marking its 40th anniversary in style with 40 days of celebration. Sportseller opened its doors in February 1979 and moved to Washington Mall two years later — where it has been ever since. To mark i...

Looking for organic gin, inexpensive Malbec, or wine accessories — Discovery Wines’ new Hamilton store has it all. Discovery Wines opened a boutique store on the corner of Queen and Reid Streets in early December. “It has been very successful so far...

Consumer electronics store P-Tech is moving house, but they’re not going far. On Monday they will open their doors across the street at 2 Reid Street, on the corner of Queen Street and Reid Street. George Grundmuller, president and CEO of The Phoe...

Two years after launching his own line of raincoats, Jaime Ramsay can’t keep his products on store shelves. The next batch of his Jamie Madison Collection jackets comes out next Monday, and more than 60 per cent has already been pre-sold. “There’s ...