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Bermuda Day cannot be celebrated in the usual way this year, no half-marathon and no parade around the streets of Hamilton. But I know that the holiday will still be marked in homes by families across the island and I take this opportunity to send my...

The Bermuda Half Marathon Derby Committee today announced a donation of $25,000 to assist the community through challenges brought on by the COVID-19 crisis. At a time when thousands would have lined the streets to cheer on runners from Somerset to B...

Dear Sir, On reading today’s Royal Gazette (May 8, 2020), I was disappointed, to say the least, that I could not find any mention of the significance of today’s date. When so many Bermudians and millions of people gave their lives to fight the Nazi ...

A veteran chef has teamed up with a caterer to organise a boxed lunch giveaway for Mother’s Day tomorrow. Fred Ming and Kirk Wilks will hand out free gift baskets of food and drink so that mothers can celebrate at home. Mr Ming and Mr Wilks came up w...

A Best of Bermuda Day Parade special will be screened later this month, the community affairs minister said this morning. Lovitta Foggo said that the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs would work CITV to provide the public with a “Best of ...

The Agricultural Exhibition may have been cancelled — but schools are still showing off their pupil’s green thumbs. Mount Saint Agnes Academy and the Bermuda Institute have highlighted several entries prepared by children for the show, which had been...

Dear Sir, The dictionary defines “tradition” as ”the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way”. So how many generations does a custom have to be passed down through before it become...

The Peppercorn Ceremony in St George’s next month was today cancelled. A spokesman for the Corporation of St George said the decision was made because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The ceremony, scheduled to take place on April 22, was designed for the F...

Organisers of the Bermuda Day Half-Marathon Derby and Sinclair Packwood Memorial cycle race are watching the progress of the Covid-19 outbreak very closely ahead of one of the biggest holidays of the year. Bermuda Day, scheduled for May 29, also invo...

The AXA End-to-End charity walk will feature an all-new event this year, and make a bigger cash donation to a school. This year’s event will feature an End-to-Middle walk from St George’s to Hamilton in addition to the End-to-End and Middle-to-End, b...

Victories in the battle for equality paved the way for a world where young women feel less affected by discrimination, the island’s EU representative said yesterday. However, Renée Webb added that campaigns like tomorrow’s International Women’s Day w...

When Priscilla Tully started planning her 100th birthday party, she knew exactly where she wanted it to be — Bermuda. The Middlebury, Vermont resident has been coming here at least once a year since 1975. “The location keeps me coming back and people...