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Dear Sir, Thank you Al Seymour for your column in the October 28, 2019 edition of The Royal Gazette regarding manners — or the lack thereof. Nothing is nicer than being greeted with a smile, a hello, a good morning or good afternoon. This used to be ...

Crowds of Portuguese residents gathered to cheer and wave flags to welcome the president of the Azores government to Bermuda today. Vasco Cordeiro touched down in Bermuda as part of celebrations leading up to the public holiday on Monday to celebrate...

The sights and sounds of the Gombey will return to the spotlight next weekend at the 2019 Bermuda International Gombey Festival. This year’s event, hosted by the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, will feature panel discussions, a document...

Two summer programmes for schoolchildren have ended. The Summer Internship Programme and the Summer Employment Programme both wrapped up last week. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, said the four-week programme gav...

Competitors will dig in to the Bermuda Sandcastle Competition this month with a total of $3,500 in prize money at stake. A top prize of $500 will be awarded to the best sandcastle and a further $3,000 worth of cash prizes can be won across four categ...

Seeing how our culture has bridged Bermuda’s many divides has been one of the most rewarding aspects of Heather Whalen’s 22-year career in the arts. The former director of the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs revelled in experiencing bla...

We’re celebrating Bermudian Excellence this Heritage Month. And today, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sports, the Hon. Lovitta Foggo congratulated this year’s winners of the Cultural Apprenticeship Showcase. Colita Cook-Shillingford ...

May 1st signals the start of Heritage Month, and with this year’s theme being - Bermudian Excellence, the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs have a number of activities planned to celebrate Bermuda’s culture. The Minister of Labour, Commun...

Community affairs minister Lovitta Foggo announced a series of updates on programmes within Department of Community and Cultural Affairs in a Ministerial Statement at the House of Assembly today. • To read Lovitta Foggo’s statement, click on the PDF ...

Born in America to Liberian refugees, all Archel Bernard wanted was to fit in. It wasn’t always possible. Questions were asked about the jollof rice in her lunch box and then there was her mother, who insisted on picking her up from school in traditi...

The historic Perot Post Office on Hamilton’s Queen Street reopened yesterday after a major refurbishment. Walton Brown, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, said the renovated post office will now be the home of the Bermuda Philatelic Bureau, which u...

Performance artists from Grenada and the US Virgin Islands are to join in the Bermuda International Gombey Festival this weekend. The bright-coloured Shortknee, from Grenada, wear a wire screen mask over a whitened face and perform rhythmic stomping ...