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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 ...

Clothing retailer Tabs has expanded its product line in response to customer preferences. The Reid Street store, which specialises in Bermuda shorts, acted on the results of a survey that sought feedback from customers on which brands and products th...

Rickeisha Burgess was far from bored during the Covid-19 lockdown. She was too busy trying to save her homemade popsicle business, Duch Pops, hit hard by the pandemic. “Covid-19 was a major impact, because we were located in Dockyard where we servic...

When Earlena Ingham and niece Kaurie Daniels took over space in Hamilton in February they thought their new health food store would be open within the month. They did not anticipate all the renovation needed, plumbing, electricity, flooring, and they...

Even in times of adversity entrepreneurship thrives, as is the case with the opening of a new online retailer of baby and children’s items. It was during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown that Ashley Stokes decided to turn her hand at website creation, ...

Retail sales volume in May was down 15 per cent year-on-year. The drop largely reflected the impact of Covid-19 safety restrictions that month, which included curfew hours and kerbside pick up sales for some businesses. In value terms, retail sales f...