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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 ...

There will always be an exception to any observation, but what must be understood is that it does not undermine the latter. It is impossible to forget a culture that never existed but was fixed by imperial forces like a prosthetic limb on to an invis...

Trené Todd was nervous getting on the plane to Bermuda. It was her first time visiting her father’s birthplace, and she didn’t want to stick out. “My aunt Nancy Cruz warned me to wear something red and blue,” said the 26-year-old, who arrived just be...

An arts and crafts show for seniors was held to mark May’s Heritage Month. The island’s older residents showcased their handiwork at a special exhibition. The tenth annual seniors’ show was themed “what we share”, and was held in the horticultural ha...

After 25 years, the self-proclaimed kings of fishcakes will step down to make way for a new king or queen. Dale Butler and Rodney Smith have won the National Fishcake Competition title since its inception in 1992. Mr Butler, who created the competiti...

The crucial role Africans played in the early days of Bermuda is to be explored tonight at Bermuda College. Bermudian historian Clarence Maxwell said people taken from Africa “helped define a lot of the foundation for what ended up happening later in...

Bermuda’s rich culture and heritage has drawn hundreds of specialist travel planners to the island. The 32nd Educational Travel Consortium Conference, the first to be held outside of the United States, is being held at the Fairmont Southampton. Mara ...

The languages of love, the use of plastic and dangerous driving will all be tackled at the nineteenth edition of Pecha Kucha. The quarterly event, which is being held today at the Warwick Workmen’s Club, will bring together a host of speakers to disc...

Maxine Esdaille dreamt of becoming a nurse until a frank talk about blood changed her mind. She then considered becoming a scientist, but didn’t receive much encouragement. “Black women weren’t scientists in those days,” she said. “Someone so nicely ...

Gombey dancing is in Teresa Warner’s blood. She is descended from founders of both Warner’s and Place’s Gombey troupes. When she started dancing with Warner’s at the age of 6, it came naturally. However, her father, Gregory Place, a former captain o...

A dollmaker whose Gombey creation won a hat-trick of awards at an international convention has attributed her victory to a deep reverence for the Bermudian art form. Penny Sampson entered her Gombey into last month’s event, held by the Doll Artisan ...