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More than 20 Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers will team up with police to keep the annual Cup Match holiday safe. The soldiers, all Special Constables, will work on land at hosts St George’s Cricket Club and at sea over the four-day holiday weekend wh...

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller The 2019 Cup Match holiday is soon approaching. This holiday is a time to exhale and breathe a sigh of relief because there is a two-day holiday just before the wee...

Cup Match will be held in St George’s this year, but seniors will gate a taste of the event in Somerset days before the first over. The third annual Tee’l Pre-Cup Match and Emancipation Day tea for seniors will be held at Somerset Cricket Club on Jul...

Police and government representatives have discussed Cup Match safety with the management at this year’s venue for the two-day cricket match. Venue logistics, safety and public transportation were among the topics covered with St George’s Cricket Clu...

Somers Day was observed for nearly two decades before Parliament created the two-day Cup Match holiday in 1947. The first known public commemoration of Sir George Somers’s 1609 landing of the Sea Venture occurred in 1929. On July 28, 1931, Somers Day...

Did Cup Match originate with the emancipation of slaves on August 1, 1834? If so, why was the first Cup Match played on June 12, 1902 — a date that recently passed without mention? How did “Somers Day” come to be the second day of Cup Match? New res...

A Bermuda retreat for young professionals is expected to boost visitors over Cup Match. The event, organised by Generation Next, is expected to attract people from Britain, the Caribbean, Canada and the United States. Karim Creary, a member of the yo...

The oldest surviving former Cup Match player, Leroy “Tubby” Richardson, has died. Mr Richardson, a one-time St George’s player and resident, who passed away on Monday, was 97. He made his debut in the Classic in 1941, at the age of 20. He later capta...

Schoolchildren should have a say on whether Somers Day should be renamed to honour Cup Match’s emancipation roots, a Progressive Labour Party backbencher said yesterday. Michael Weeks, a former Minister of Social Development and Sport, was speaking a...

A former premier is backing a call to remove the man who claimed Bermuda for Britain from the annual Cup Match holiday and replace him with a former slave who became a hero of the abolitionist movement. Dame Jennifer Smith is supporting a proposal by...

An annual holiday should honour a national hero, a racial justice organisation urged last night. Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda said that the second day of Cup Match should be named Mary Prince Day. The organisation said that the designation ...