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There seem to be no end to the celebrations marking this year’s Cup Match. The 2014 game was the 113th Classic commemorating the enforcement on August 1, 1834 of the Emancipation Act, that ended 400 years of slavery of black people in Bermuda. Year b...

By Ira Philip Because of the widespread ‘gone but not forgotten good spirit’ generated by the 2014 Somerset-St George’s Cup Match we are finding it more and more difficult to close our files on this year’s celebration. As a result, for this feature y...

There was plenty to smile about during the two days of the 113th Annual Somerset CC vs St George’s CC Cup Match at Somerset. My colleagues at The Royal Gazette in its brilliant colourful front page coverage, have described the event as one when every...

Organisers of the annual Beachfest celebration believe the event has become an established Cup Match holiday tradition — but needs more support from Government and other official bodies. And executive director Gavin Smith has described calls for the ...

Sales of rum, Bermuda’s national spirit, are improving, although marginally, according to liquor vendors who are looking at their sales in the aftermath of the celebratory Cup Match holiday. Bacardi brand manager at Burrows, Lightbourn Ltd’s Alvin Ha...

It is typically Bermudian that this tiny Island, divided in so many other ways, could find the stuff of national unity in, of all things, a two-day game of cricket. But even as the just completed Cup Match partitions the Island into two opposing camp...

Thousands of residents of all ages and backgrounds came together for the party of the year — and made it a Cup Match to remember. This year’s two-day extravaganza of cricket, crown and anchor and camaraderie to celebrate the Island’s emancipation an...

The annual Beachfest party should be cancelled in the wake of mass drunkenness and brawls, one concerned spectator said last night. And another warned that the event was a disaster waiting to happen, with a late night fight that threatened to spiral ...

If there’s one time of year when Bermudians are bound to ‘step up to the wicket’ when it comes to their style, it’s Cup Match. If you’ve ever shown up to the cricket field wearing the same outfit as someone else in the crowd, then you know standing o...

The result of Cup Match is still to be decided — but Somerset Cricket Club are determined they will not be on the losing side if the East-West clash is cancelled due to bad weather. For Somerset CC — for the first time in the game’s 112-year history ...