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The community looks west tomorrow for Good Friday as a home-grown celebration of togetherness marks its seventh year. The Open Your Heart Foundation’s free festivities, starting at 11am at Warren Simmons field in Somerset, is especially poignant this...

Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, The peace of St George is being shattered regularly by kite flyers. These kites fly for hours with their hummers wailing and shrieking above the town, even spoiling the peace of the Sabbath. Apparently this happens in ...

A karate school turned to kite-making to help preserve Bermudian culture. Tabata-Ha Shotokan Karate-Do Bermuda said it was important to promote the skill of kite-making, a Good Friday tradition. Andrea McKey, the administrator and a teacher at the s...

Kites made by Salvation Army clients are up for sale. The traditional-style Bermuda kites, created at the Salvation Army’s Harbour Light centre, were made as part of the rehabilitation programme run by the charity. Naomi Fox, in charge of marketing a...

Dear Sir, Here I am writing this at 6am. Something has to be done about these noisy kites! If it was a barking dog, all day and night, they would be fined for disturbing the peace. Make it illegal to fly kites outside of the months of March and Apri...

The lack of wind was not kind to kite flyers but residents got into the Easter spirit as they gathered across the island to celebrate Good Friday. At Horseshoe Bay, Karla Aitken and her friend Kirsten Bruun invited passers-by for fishcakes and a drin...

People are warned not to fly kites that could get in the way of planes. Skyport advised kites should not be flown in the Ferry Reach area, Kindley Field Road and the Clearwater area of St David’s. It said if kites are flown in these areas, they could...

Seven years after a father was fatally gunned down in front of his two children on Good Friday the impact can still be felt, community representatives say. Kimwandae Walker, 35, was fatally shot shortly after 2pm on April 2, 2010. Mr Walker was fly...

Hundreds of people have descended on St David’s Cricket Club for the annual Good Friday Gilbert Lamb Fun Day. Young people got involved with kite flying and informal football games early this afternoon and, with numerous families setting up camp arou...

Spirits soared as locals and visitors alike came together yesterday to celebrate the much loved Good Friday holiday in Bermuda. Huge crowds gathered at Horseshoe Bay Beach to take full advantage of the perfect kite-flying weather, while hundreds of p...

Those looking to send kites soaring on Good Friday will have favourable conditions, according to one weather forecaster. James Dodgson, deputy director with the Bermuda Weather Service, said a moderate northeasterly breeze would make for good kite fl...